Category Archives: Attacks on activists

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

HRW: Bahrain: Overturn Rights Activist’s Conviction

Charges Violate Freedom of Assembly OCTOBER 14, 2012 (Beirut) – Bahrain’s court of appeal should... more

Urgent Appeal: HRD Nabeel Rajab on hunger strike after the authorities refused to allow him to attend condolences of his mother

Update - 09 Oct 2012 At the request of friends and family, Nabeel Rajab ended... more

The Observatory: BAHRAIN: Ongoing judicial harassment and arbitrary detention of Nabeel Rajab

as criminalisation and threats against human rights defenders go unabated 2 October 2012 Paris-Geneva, October... more

Urgent Appeal: Judicial harassment continued as detained activist Zainab AlKhawaja is beaten in police station

Update: 03 Oct 2012 Activist Zainab AlKhawaja has been released Wed 03 Oct 2012. However,... more

Bahrain- Court refuses to release human rights defender Nabeel Rajab,

and imprisonment sentence passed on human rights activist Zainab Al-Khawaja 1 Oct 2012 The Gulf... more

HRF: Bahraini Defender Sentenced to Prison for Tearing Picture of King

September 26, 2012 Washington, DC – Today, a Bahraini court sentenced Zainab Al-Khawaja to two... more

Defence Lawyers’ Response to Statement of Supreme Judicial Council and Public Prosecution’s Press Conference

5 September 2012 In response to the statement made by the Supreme Judicial Council and... more