Category Archives: General

Former PM David Cameron visits Bahrain amid speculation he may follow Blair's lead

David Cameron visited Bahrain this week to meet with the Kingdom’s Crown Prince and business... more

Bahrain: The unspoken Revolution that will shake Gulf monarchies

Looking at Bahrain and how western capitals insist on treating al-Khalifa regime as the only... more

Home Office linked to spyware in human rights row

A British security company criticised after its spyware was used by authoritarian foreign states has... more

Bahrain exposed: Repression & theocratic supremacism in the kingdom island

The human rights black hole no one wants to talk about for fear of exposing... more

Freedom of the Press: Bahrain Restricts Media Access During GCC Summit in Bahrain

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is concerned about the ongoing and intensifying harassment... more

Bahrain is no U.S. partner

Maybe S. Rob Sobhani is right that no world leader “will come close to being... more

Maryam al-Khawaja: Bahrain remains in the grip of oppression, and the UK Government is partly to blame

LAST year exiled Bahraini human rights activist Maryam al-Khawaja told The National the UK had... more

Bahrain – Opposition leader’s sentence upheld on appeal (December 12, 2016)

France notes with concern the upholding of the nine-year prison sentence for al-Wefaq’s secretary-general, Sheikh... more

Rights groups blast sentence against Bahrain Shiite activist

Human rights groups are sharply criticizing a Bahraini appeal court’s ruling upholding a nine-year prison... more

Bahrain court upholds 9-year prison term for opposition chief

A Bahraini court has upheld a nine-year prison term imposed on the country’s most prominent... more