Category Archives: Attacks on activists

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

HRF: Bahrain Regime Postpones Medics Case Again

February 27, 2012 Washington, DC – Today, the 20 Bahrain medics who were detained, tortured... more

GCHR: Open appeal to the king of Bahrain and the Bahraini government to release human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja

Beirut, 25 February 2012 -- The Gulf Centre for Human Rights appeals to the King... more

HRF: U.S. Urged to Denounce Bahrain Military Court Convictions Ahead of Teachers’ Court Date

February 17, 2012 Washington, DC – On Sunday, Feb. 19, Mahdi Abu Deeb and Jaleela... more