Category Archives: Attacks on activists

Kingdom of Bahrain Joint Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review 41st Session of the UPR Working Group

March 2022 Submitted by: Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) (ECOSOC Status)... more

Enforced disappearance has a negative effect that paralyzes the victim depriving him from protection of the law

Since the start of the popular movement in February of 2011, the authorities in Bahrain... more

Closing Civil Space: 11 Years After the Arab Springing in Bahrain

On 14 February, Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) held a webinar marking the 11th... more

On the International Day of Education: it is a shared endeavor & a public good

24 January 2022 marks the fourth International Day of Education since the United Nations General... more

BCHR Human Rights Day Statement, 10 December 2021

Seventy-three years ago today, the world’s nations came together to adopt the Universal Declaration of... more

Prisoner of Conscience Dr. Abduljalil al-Singace Continues His Hunger Strike for The Fifth Consecutive Month

Background Dr. Abduljalil al-Singace, imprisoned Bahraini academic, political activist, and human rights defender continues his... more

Cosmetic Reforms: Assessing Bahrain’s Implementation of the BICI Recommendations Ten Years Later

23 November 2021 marks the tenth anniversary of the King’s adoption of the recommendations of... more

Post-Pegasus: Protecting Human Rights Defenders in the 21st Century

On 29 October 2021, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) hosted a panel titled... more

Members of BCHR targeted by Pegasus spyware

Between June 2020 and February 2021, Bahrain surveilled human rights activists, dissidents, and members of... more

Rights Groups Urge Bahrain to Release Dr Abduljalil Al Singace, Jailed Academic on Hunger Strike

Bahrain Centre for Human Rights alongside 16 leading human rights groups including Amnesty International, Scholars... more