Category Archives: Attacks on activists

Bahrain: “It is impossible to imagine that the Bahrain Grand Prix will go ahead if Abdulhadi Alkhawaja dies on hunger strike”

PRESS RELEASE Issued Manama, Bahrain, 03 April 2012 EMBARGOED 15.00pm Irish Time – 17.00pm Bahrain... more

IFEX: TAKE ACTION! Join our call to save human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja

Stand with IFEX member Nabeel Rajab, President of BCHR, as he protests on 3 April... more

Stop A Real Life Hunger Game

Bahraini activist Abdulhadi Alkhawaja has been on a hunger strike for nearly 2 months to... more

Amnesty Int’l: Bahrain: Activists’ sentences to be reviewed

URGENT ACTION The Court of Cassation in Bahrain is set to rev iew the verdict... more

Amnesty Int’l: Bahrain: Release leading rights activist at risk of death from hungerstrike

29 March 2011 A leading Bahraini human rights defender serving a life sentence for his... more

Front Line: HUNGER STRIKE FOR FREEDOM- Human rights defender Abdulhadi Al- Khawaja enters 50th day of hunger strike

PRESS RELEASE - 28 MARCH 2012 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On 29th March leading Bahraini... more

Front Line: New charges brought against human rights defender Mr Naji Fateel

27 March 2012 On 21 March 2012, the Bahraini public prosecution brought new charges against... more

PHR: Proving Torture Allegations: Trouble with Bahraini Trial Continues

by Abdulrazzaq al-Saiedi on March 12, 2012 Twenty medical professionals in Bahrain continue to fight... more

IFEX: Forty-five rights groups call on King to free Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, whose life is at risk in prison

(BCHR/IFEX) - 5 March 2012 - The following is a letter by 45 IFEX members... more

Human rights defenders in Bahrain: heroes of a forgotten revolution

On Monday, February 27, 2012, the 19th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC)... more