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