Category Archives: Torture in Bahrain
Cosmetic Reforms: Assessing Bahrain’s Implementation of the BICI Recommendations Ten Years Later
23 November 2021 marks the tenth anniversary of the King’s adoption of the recommendations of... more
Tortured & then executed: Ali Al Arab & Ahmed Al Malali
The death penalty is a punishment that has been fairly uncommon prior to the Arab... more
UN Experts’ Joint Communication to Bahrain Government on Tortured HRDs Sentenced to Life
On 3 May 2021, Mary Lawlor who is the Special Rapporteur on the situation of... more
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Today, June 26th marks the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. It... more
Defective and Deficient: A Review of Bahrain’s National Human Rights Bodies
In the aftermath of the Bahraini uprising in 2011, the King of Bahrain ordered the... more
Bahrain: Torture is the Policy and Impunity is the Norm
A Report by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) produced in cooperation with the... more
Ongoing Executions in Bahrain
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) condemns the death sentence recently issued by the... more
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights issues a report entitled “Torture Survivors”
“Torture is a vicious attempt to break a person’s will”, as the United Nations Secretary-General... more
From 2011 to 2019: The Screams of Torture Still Echo
On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, 26 June, BCHR... more
Bahrain:Secret military courts sentence civilians forced to confess under torture
The general principles of the Comparative International Law and the International Bill on the judiciary... more