Detainees
Abbas Abdali assaulted
Injuries of Abbas Abdali, brother of activist Musa Abdali, after being attacked by masked men on July 6, 2006. Details are here: Detained Activists Brother Ambushed & Brutally Beaten
GDN:Bahraini 'terror suspect' moved into detention
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Bahraini 'terror suspect' moved into detention
By MOHAMMED AL A'ALI
A PARDONED Bahraini terror suspect held in Syria was yesterday moved to a detention facility.
Shaikh Mohammed Habib Al Muqdad was arrested at the Damascus airport as he tried to return home on Wednesday.
Immigration officials took him to the National Security Agency earlier in the day, before shifting him to the facility.
The Al Zahraa Orphans' Support Society president had arrived in Syria five days ago.
GND:Terror threat fears denied
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Terror threat fears denied
By MANDEEP SINGH
US Navy officials yesterday played down security fears after an alleged terrorist plot to target ships and sailors came to light.
A spokeswoman said the decision to allow the families of US servicemen back to Bahrain after a five-year gap would not be affected by an ongoing case at the High Criminal Court.
Two Bahrainis have been accused of smuggling weapons into the country and planning to attack US ships and personnel at Mina Salman.
Reuters: Bahraini Shi'ites complain over settling Sunnis
21 Jun 2009
By Andrew Hammond
DUBAI, June 21 (Reuters) - Majority Shi'ite Muslims in the Gulf Arab state of Bahrain, home to a U.S. navy base, are increasingly agitated over what they say are government efforts to give Sunni foreigners nationality to dilute Shi'ite numbers.
Steadfast in Protest: The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders publishes its Annual Report 2009
Friday 19th June 2009,
Authorities step up offensive against journalists and websites
Bahrain | 14.05.2009
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about freedom of expression in Bahrain. In the past couple of months, two journalists have been charged because of what they wrote and the information ministry has stepped up Internet filtering.
URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY: Abduction / Attack / Ill-treatment in Bahrain
THE OBSERVATORY
for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
BHR 002 / 0509 / OBS 071
May 13, 2009
Human Rights Watch - Bahrain: Investigate Abduction, Beating of Rights Activist
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/05/1...activist?print
May 12, 2009
(New York) - Bahrain should immediately begin a thorough and impartial investigation into the abduction and torture of the human rights activist Ja'far Kadhim Ibrahim, Human Rights Watch said today. Men whom Ibrahim believed were working for a Bahraini security agency abducted him on the night of May 7, 2009, and beat him severely with batons.
Bahrain: Despite Pardon Activists and Human Rights Defenders are Targeted
The Former President of the BCHR banned from travelling despite a Supreme Court's Decision
The National Security Service and the Prosecution obstruct the execution of the Supreme Court's Decision to Lift the Travel Ban from Al-Khawaja, Al-Singaece and Others
The "Pardon" decision is Temporary and does not include closing the cases of the accused or dropping the rest of the sentences from the convicted!
GDN:Terror plot suspect works for Customs
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Terror plot suspect works for Customs
By MOHAMMED AL A'ALI
ONE of two men arrested on suspicion of being part of a terrorist cell actually works for the Interior Ministry.
The 22-year-old Bahraini, who was detained after police seized machine guns and other weapons, was employed as a junior customs officer.
He and another man, a 22-year-old unemployed Bahraini, were arrested on April 26 - the same day that Bahrain was hosting the Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix.
