Category Archives: Attacks on activists
Amnesty Int’l: Bahrain: Activist Naji Fateel jailed for six months
Further information on UA: 114/13 Index: MDE 11/017/2013 Bahrain Date: 30 May 2013 URGENT ACTION... more
Front Line Defenders: Bahrain: Sentencing of human rights defenders Zainab Al-Khawaja and Naji Fateel
On 22 May 2010, Bahraini courts sentenced, in separate proceedings, human rights defenders Ms Zainab Al-Khawaja and... more
Bahrain: Attacks Intensifying on Freedom of Expression
17 May 2013 The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its deep concern over the... more
Urgent Appeal: Bahrain- Prominent Human Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab Reportedly Missing
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) and the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR)... more
Bahrain – Human rights defender Naji Fateel to be detained for 60 days on anti-state charges after allegedly being tortured
9 May 2013 According to reports received by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR)... more
BAHRAIN: Sentenced to two years in prison for advocating and exercising the right to peaceful assembly
Publication of a Judicial Observation Mission Report 19 Feb 2013 The Observatory for the Protection... more
Bahrain: BCHR President, Nabeel Rajab, Denied Adequate Medical Care in Prison
Photo: Rajab, pictured above, after an attack from the security forces in 2005 24 April... more
The BCHR Releases Report on Limited Medical Access and Breach of Medical Neutrality in Bahrain
April 8th, 2013 The Bahrain Center for Human Rights, with the help of a medical... more
Bahrain: Solidarity Protests for HRD Nabeel Rajab around the World, But Attacked in Bahrain; Said Yousif Al-Muhafdha Arrested
Photo: Said Yousif Al-Muhafdha while being arrested 23rd March 2013 Human rights defender Said Yousif... more
Bahrain: Urgent Appeal: Zainab Al-Khawaja’s life at imminent risk as she and Abdul-Hadi Al-Khawaja initiate dry hunger strike
24th March 2013 UPDATE: Both Abdulhadi and his daughter Zainab Al-Khawaja were denied family visits... more