Category Archives: Attacks on activists

Bahrain: Travel restrictions on human rights defender, Abdulghani Al-Khanjar

Front Line is concerned following reports received of a travel ban imposed on human rights... more

BCHR Lawyer subjected to search and interrogation at the Airport

Bahrain: Fear of breach of Clients as well as BCHR Privacy resulting from copying information... more

IFEX MEMBERS CONDEMN HARASSMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS

At a human rights event in Washington, D.C. last month, the head of IFEX member... more

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: End Threats to Rights Activists

Interior Minister Warned of Criminal Punishment for ‘Foreign’ Contacts (New York, November 12, 2008) –... more

JOINT ACTION: Twenty-four IFEX members and partners call for solidarity with human rights defenders at risk

(BCHR/IFEX) - The following is a joint action led by BCHR: Signed, Adil Soz, International... more

Freedom of expression threatened by enforcement of Article 134 of Penal Code, says ARTICLE 19

7 November 2008 SOURCE: ARTICLE 19, London (ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - The following is an ARTICLE... more

Human rights defender Al-Maskati facing trial on November 6

Published on Front Line (http://www.frontlinedefenders.org) Bahrain: Human rights defender Mohamed Abdul Nabi Al-Maskati facing trial... more

Frontline: Bahrian – Ongoing governmental and media harassment against human rights defenders

Front Line is deeply concerned following reports received concerning the ongoing media harassment of human... more

URGENT APPEAL – THE OBSERVATORY : Slandering campaign

October 28, 2008 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme... more