Category Archives: Religious Freedom

Kingdom of Bahrain Joint Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review 41st Session of the UPR Working Group

March 2022 Submitted by: Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) (ECOSOC Status)... more

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

USCIRF: New Report on Religious Freedom Conditions in Bahrain

Washington, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today released the... more

Mass Arrests during the Ashura Season in Bahrain

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) condemns the restriction of religious freedoms by the... more

Bahrain: Authorities should not take the Coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to restrict the freedom of religion

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) expresses its deep concern over the continued exposure... more

Ashura in Bahrain: Preventing freedoms and prohibiting “black flags”

Bahrain has been celebrating, since ancient times, the commemoration of “Ashura” with distinguished events and... more

Bahrain: Recommendations of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)

Recommendations to US Government Include Bahrain on the U.S. Department of State’s Special Watch List... more

Bahrain: Religious freedom threatened in Ashura

Shiite cleric tried for contempt of a sect The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR)... more

Bahrain: Ashura Reveals False Allegations of Respect for Freedom of Religion

Bahraini Shiites celebrate “Ashura” on the month of Muharram every year in honor of Imam... more

Protection of Religious Freedoms: A Human Duty

Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) and Bahrain Interfaith (BI), in cooperation with Media Association... more