Category Archives: Restrictive laws
GDN: Activists call for repeal of terror law
GDN - 16 August 2006 By Kanwal Tariq Hameed A CALL has gone out to... more
Bahrain ratifies ‘counter-terrorism bill’ despite pleas by UN, Amnesty, Front line and ICJ
Concerns of possibility of torture and threats to freedom of speech and association Bahrain Center... more
World Press Freedom Review:Bahrain -2005 World Press Freedom Review-
World Press Freedom Review 2005 Bahrain 2005 World Press Freedom Review http://www.freemedia.at/cms/ipi/freedom_detail.html?country=/KW0001/KW0004/KW0089/ Campaigns for social... more
Front Line:Concern over Bahrain’s new anti terror bill
Front Line - 2 August 2006 A new anti terror law that is awaiting final... more
Freedom House: Countries at the Crossroads 2006 – Bahrain report
Country Report - Bahrain http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=140&edition=7&ccrpage=31&ccrcountry=111 Introduction Bahrain is the least wealthy of the oil-producing Arab... more
Amnesty International:Counter-terrorism bill threatens human rights
Amnesty International AI Index: MDE 11/003/2006 (Public) News Service No: 197 27 July 2006 Bahrain:... more
ICJ urges King not to promulgate new counter-terrorism law
International Commission of Jurists - 27 July 2006 Administration of Justice - Counter Terrorism and... more
Bahrain terror bill is not in line with international human rights law
UN News Service - 25 July 2006 25 July 2006 – An independent United Nations... more
Lift Press gag call
Gulf Daily News - 14 June 2006 By KANWAL TARIQ HAMEED A CALL went out... more
Bahrain: King Should Reject Law on Public Gatherings
Government Must Revise Draft Law That Undermines Freedom of Assembly Human Rights Watch - 8... more