Category Archives: Attacks on activists
Bahrain: Concern over Human Rights Defenders Prosecuted and Sentenced to Prison
Geneva-Manama-Paris, 21 June 2013. In Bahrain, human rights defenders are being harassed, arbitrarily detained for months... more
Bahrain- Human rights defender Mohammed Al-Maskati facing reprisals for cooperating with the UN system
The Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) and Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) express... more
BAHRAIN: The head of the BYSHR is Facing Charges Related to illegal protests
The Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR) strongly denounce the politically motivated charges brought against human... more
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