Bahrain Human Rights updates

Coverage by the media and NGOs around the world

The Telegraph

02.01.2016

Tear gas fired at protesters in Bahrain after Saudi Arabia executes top Shia cleric

Sputnik

04.01.2014

Bahrain’s Interior Ministry press center said that Police in the Shiite-majority kingdom of Bahrain have detained an unspecified number of people protesting the execution of a prominent cleric in Saudi Arabia

Middle East Eye

05.01.2016

The forgotten story

BMA

14.01.2016

Doctor held for ‘misusing’ social media

Human Rights Watch

27.01.2016

Bahrain: torture allegations expose sham reforms

The Washington Times

11.02.2016

When Bahrain Bullies

Human Rights First

15.02.2016

American journalists arrested in Bahrain indicates continuing crackdown on dissent

Global Voices

16.02.2016

In Bahrain, journalism is a crime

Goal

18.02.2015

Dyke: I don’t think anyone from Bahrain should be Fifa president

Human Rights First

24.02.2016

Bahraini opposition leader sentenced to one year in jail

Arabian Business

26.02.2016

Bahrain’s Sheikh Salman loses out to Infantino in FIFA presidency vote

Huffington Post

06.03.2016

Five years on from the uprising, the UK is still fuelling oppression in Bahrain​

Bahrain Mirror

08.03.2016

BCHR: Dry Dock Prison responds to hunger strikers’ demands by imposing more arbitrary measures

Bahrain Mirror

09.03.2016

Policeman Convicted of Beating Prisoner Sentenced to 3 Months in Prison instead of 2 Years