Category Archives: News and Statements

The European Parliament calls on Bahrain to stop the death penalty

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) welcomes the adoption by the European Union Parliament... more

On the tenth anniversary of the “14 February” movement in Bahrain: What really happened? 

On the tenth anniversary of Bahrain’s 2011 Uprising, Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) held... more

Bahrain: Covid-19 heralds a humanitarian catastrophe in prisons

At a time when the world is living in an unprecedented state of health in... more

Bahrain Center for Human Rights: Nabeel Rajab’s release was a positive step

13 June 2016 marks the fourth anniversary of the arrest of prominent human rights defender... more

Nabeel Rajab: To Freedom

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) congratulates the President of the center and the... more

The release of prisoners of conscience is a step towards social justice

On 20 February of every year, the countries of the world celebrate the “International Day... more

Women, the powerful actors in building peace

  On the International Women’s Day, BCHR launches its report entitled: “Bahrain: Women, the powerful... more

The release of prisoner of conscience, Hajar Mansour

Today, Thursday 5th if March 2020, the prisoner of conscience, Hajar Mansour, 51 years old,... more

Opening of the 43rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council: “Human rights are violated”

The United Nations’ Human Rights Council HRC in Geneva opened the work of the forty-third... more

Violations rise on the ninth anniversary of the launch of pro-democracy protests on February 14

Last Friday, February 14, 2020, marks the ninth anniversary of the start of the protests... more