Category Archives: Attacks on activists

Update: Justice Denied for Masooma AlSayed

Photo: Masooma Al-Sayed being arrested by policewomen during a Manama Protest Update: 19 November 2012... more

Bahrain: Twitter users sentenced to prison as authorities seek to extend their crack-down on social media websites

08 November 2012 The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses concern over the recent charges... more

Joint Statement: Bahrain Authorities Withdraw Citizenship from 31 people, by Order of the King of Bahrain

07 November 2012 The Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR) and the Bahrain Center... more

Bahrain: Three days after release of BCHR Report on Impunity, Arrest of Acting Vice President Sayed Yousif AlMuhafdhah

03 Nov 2012 The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), the Gulf Center for Human... more

Amnesty Int’l: Bahrain must quash the convictions of two teachers

19 October 2012 Convictions and sentences against two former leaders of the Bahrain Teachers’ Association... more

The Observatory: Bahrain: Rights of the defence undermined in Nabeel Rajab’s trial

Paris-Geneva, October 18, 2012. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint... more

Bahrain: Judicial crackdown continues on human rights defenders and activists

17 October 2012- The Gulf centre for Human Rights (BCHR) and Bahrain Centre for human... more

Amnesty Int’l: Human Rights Activist Nabeel Rajab Standing Unfair Trial

16 October 2012 Bahraini human rights activist, NabeeI Rajab, appeared before the Court of Appeal... more

URGENT APPEAL: After his Oral Intervention at the Human Rights Council, Arrest of President of BYSHR Mr. Mohamed Al-Maskati

16th of October 2012 We, the undersigned human right organizations demand the immediate release of... more