Category Archives: Attacks on activists
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
Urgent appeal: Further details regarding the ill-treatment of Nabeel Rajab and Zainab Al-Khawaja in prison of Bahrain
12 Sep 2012- Dates of next session of trial updated inside 09 Sep 2012 Gulf... more
Open Letter to the President of The Arab Republic of Egypt, Dr. Mohamed Morsi Isa El-Ayyat
Johannesburg, August 27, 2012 Dear Mr. President: I write you in my capacity of The... more
Open letter to Mr. Barack Obama, President of the USA from the Family of Bahraini prominent Human Rights Defender
HRD Nabeel Rajab in his house, with his wife Sumaya, his son Adam and his... more