Category Archives: General

Statement of Solidarity in Support of MENA HRDs for IFEX25

We, the human rights defenders in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), along with... more

التعذيب في البحرين: سلوك دولة و سياسة ممنهجة- في اليوم العالمي لمساندة ضحايا التعذيب: منظمات حقوقية بحرينية تطالب بإنهاء التعذيب و محاسبة "الجلادين"

قدمة في اليوم العالمي لمساندة ضحايا التعذيب، تعبّر المنظمات الحقوقية المشاركة في هذا التقرير عن... more

U.N. Experts Warn Repression in Bahrain Will Breed Unrest

GENEVA — A crackdown on human rights in Bahrain, including a resumption of executions and... more

Bahrain: Only Independent Newspaper Shut Down

  (Beirut) – Bahraini authorities on June 4, 2017, ordered the immediate indefinite suspension of... more

Bahrain must end worsening human rights clampdown, UN experts say

GENEVA (16 June 2017) – A group of United Nations human rights experts has urged... more

Bahrain: Nabeel Rajab’s son talks to Index about his father’s “unbreakable” spirit

On Tuesday, one of two trials against the Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab, who... more

Bahrain heading for ‘total suppression’ of human rights as secular opposition group banned

Bahrain’s dissolution of a major political opposition society is the latest troubling move in its... more

Bahrain court dissolves main secular opposition group

A court has ordered the dissolution of Bahrain’s main secular opposition group, as the Gulf... more

Bahrain: Nabeel Rajab trial postponed until 12 June

Today the trial of Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab has been pushed back yet... more

Trial of leading Bahraini activist postponed: rights group

A Bahraini court again denied bail to a leading Bahraini human rights activist on Tuesday... more