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Human Rights Watch – Bahrain: Activist on Trial Over Twitter Comments
A Prominent Bahraini human rights activist faces up to 12 years in prison for criticizing... more
Bahrain Criminalizes Freedom of Artistic Expression & Creation: Poet Khalil Al-Ismaeel Arrested Over Political Poem
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) expresses concern over the ongoing targeting of poets... more
Human Rights Watch – Bahrain: Journalist Faces Prosecution, Travel Ban
(Beirut) – A Bahrain prosecutor on July 17, 2016, charged a correspondent for a French... more
Bahrain Hits Civil Society Leaders with Travel Bans
The United States really should react to these reprisals forcefully, publicly and quickly. Around 20... more
A Blow Against Civil Society in Bahrain
In recent months, Bahrain has been cracking down on dissent, activists, journalists, and political opposition,... more
Germany: Federal Foreign Office on the dissolution of the Bahraini opposition party Al Wefaq
Today (18 July), a Federal Foreign Office spokesperson issued the following statement on the most recent... more
UNHRC: Press briefing notes on Turkey, Israel and Bahrain
We deeply regret the decision by a Bahraini court on Sunday to dissolve Al Wefaq,... more
Human Rights First – Pentagon Forces Congress to Wait for Late Bahrain Report
Congress has requested an analysis of how the current security situation in Bahrain affects the... more
RSF condemns politically-motivated charge against correspondent
The Bahrain correspondent of France 24 and Radio Monte-Carlo Doualiya, Nazeeha Saeed went to the... more
France: Bahrain – Dissolution of al-Wefaq (July 17, 2016)
France deplores the decision of Bahrain’s Supreme Administrative Court to order, on July 17, that... more