Category Archives: General

Bahrain king ratifies controversial protests law

AFP - 20 July 2006 King Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa ratified a controversial law on... more

Joint Letter by Amnesty International and ARTICLE 19 Regarding Public Gathering Law

Open Letter AI Index: MDE 11/001/2006 (Public) News Service No: 153 15 June 2006 Bahrain:... more

Meeting discusses monitoring of the media coverage of elections in the Arab world

The Arab Working Group for Monitoring of Media Coverage of Elections 22 May 2006 Press... more

Bahrain's dawn of democracy proves false for Shia

By William Wallis, Financial Times - May 3 2006 A few blocks away from the... more

Amnesty International: Background Information on Bahrain

Released prior to 2006 Elections to the Human Rights Council AI Index: IOR 41/006/2006 1... more

Petition from participants at the “Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy" to the King of Bahrain

Fourth Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy: "Advancing Democracy: Justice, Pluralism, and Participation" Istanbul,... more

Amid sectarianism, a political showdown looms in Bahrain

Arab Reform Bulletin (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) March 2006 By Toby Jones A political... more

U.S. State Department Report on Human Rights Practices (2005): Bahrain

Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor U.S. Department of State March... more

Activist advocates family laws for all communities

Gulf News - 25 October 2005 By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief Manama: A human rights... more

OMCT comments on the press coverage following the Observatory’s mission to Bahrain

World Organisation Against Torture Geneva, 10 October 2005. In connection to the mission carried out... more