Last month in Bahrain, one of the Gulf region's few truly independent media outlets, Al Wasat, closed its doors.
On 4 June, the Bahraini Ministry of Information informed...
Bahrain has slapped terrorism charges on an activist who tweeted criticism of the government's treatment of women, Amnesty International said Wednesday.
Ebtisam al-Saegh was...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Bahraini rights group says a female activist has been charged under an anti-terrorism law amid a crackdown on dissent in the U.S.-allied Gulf...
The Bahraini government recently shuttered the country's only independent newspaper. Exiled journalist Nazeeha Saeed writes that the media can no longer hold the region's leaders...
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Liz Throssel
Location: Geneva
Subject: (1) Venezuela (2) Bahrain
(2) Bahrain
We are deeply concerned that...
The UN human rights office has called on Bahrain to "unconditionally and immediately" release rights campaigner Nabeel Rajab, who was sentenced to two years in jail this week....
Although Bahrain’s 2011 uprising, which saw Shiites targeted and protesters violently silenced, seems a long time ago, the human rights situation continues to deteriorate in 2017...
Brian Dooley, Senior Director, Human Rights First:
"Can you tell us how you have investigated the allegations of torture made in May, what your findings were and what action...
Nabeel Rajab, a prominent Bahraini human rights activist, has been given a two‑year prison sentence on charges of publishing and disseminating false news harmful to domestic...
Bahrain Mirror: Salam for Democracy and Human Rights said that detained Ibtisam Al-Saegh, member in Salam, launched a hunger strike against torture and maltreatment she was...