Category Archives: Restrictive laws

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

Human Rights Watch: Letter on the Amendments to Law 18 (1973) on Public Gatherings

Letter to His Majesty Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa on the Amendments to Law... more

International Federation for Human Rights: Towards a legal denial of freedom of peaceful assembly

International Federation for Human Rights - 23 March 2006 http://www.fidh.org/article.php3?id_article=3195 The International Federation for Human... more