Author Archives: abbas
Update: Bahrain: Enforced Disappearance of a Blogger and an Award Winning Photojournalist
Update – 3 Aug 2013 In an escalation against citizen journalists ahead of the planned... more
Redress: Detailed letter on arrest, detention & torture of ex-MP Jawad Fairooz sent to UN Special Rapporteur
Jawad Fairooz was a member of parliament in Bahrain’s Council of Representatives from 2006 to... more
Bahrain Watch: The IP Spy Files: How Bahrain's Government Silences Anonymous Online Dissent
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: bill@bahrainwatch.org Twitter: @bhwatch July 31, 2013 BAHRAIN GOVT USING FAKE TWITTER ACCOUNTS TO... more
Bahrain: Light-Speed Amendments Made to Implement Anti-Freedoms Recommendations
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights is gravely concerned in regards to the Bahraini authorities’... more
TechWeek: Bahrain Activists Battered By IP Tracking Attacks
TechWeek – 30 July 2013 Politically speaking, little has changed in Bahrain, especially when compared... more
More than a hundred global groups make a principled stand against surveillance
For some time now there has been a need to update understandings of existing human... more
3 Asian workers die from exposure to methane in Bahrain
Gulf News- Manama: Three Asian workers died on Tuesday morning in Bahrain, apparently after succumbing... more
Bahrain: Hussain Kadhem Killed Due to Ministry of Interior’s Reckless Driving
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is gravely concerned over the ongoing arbitrary arrests... more
Bahrain Press Association: The National Assembly's Outputs are 'A National Disaster' and open 'An Open-ended War on Citizenship & the Freedoms of Expression and of Conscience'
LONDON, July 28, 2013 – Bahrain Press Association (“BPA”), the London-based association concerned with defending... more
Amnesty Int'l: URGENT ACTION: Bahraini prisoner denied medical treatment
Hassan Mshaima’, one of the 13 jailed prominent Bahraini opposition activists, told his family that... more