26 October 2011

Joint press release - FIDH - Coalition for equality without reservation - Bahrain Human Rights Society (BHRS) - Bahrein Center for Human Rights (BCHR)

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, a UN monitoring body composed of independent experts, has called on the government of Bahrain to adopt urgent measures to end serious discrimination and violence against women.

5 October 2011

Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) expresses its concern regarding the policy of discrimination in employment and unfair dismissals, which has taken place in the banking sector in Bahrain. This was accompanied with the Bahraini authorities' suppression of peaceful pro-democracy protests and gatherings, which was followed by a declaration of the emergency law which they coined as the state of National Safety on March 15, 2011.

Sayyed Hussain Al Quraifi before and after torture

3 October 2011

Bahrain Center for Human Rights received more information and has documented exposure of many of the detainees to the systematic torture, whether in detention centers or at checkpoints that spread during emergency period since mid-March. This was after a wave of brutal repression and sectarian targeting of Shiite on their sect identity initiated by the Bahraini authorities supported later by Saudi troops from expiatory-ideological backgrounds to the Shiite Muslims, in order to suppress the democracy and human rights. Such information of torture has been reported also about the wounded and injured demonstrators in the corridors of SMC since the army and security forces occupied it up until the time of writing this report.

Dublin, Ireland, September 29, 2011 – Front Line Defenders condemns in the strongest terms the sentencing today by the Bahrain National Safety Court of First Instance of 20 medical staff to prison sentences ranging from 5 to 15 years following a deeply flawed and unfair trial. Among those sentenced are Dr. Ali Al Ekri, Dr. Bassim Dhaif, and Dr. Ghassan Dhaif all of whom were trained at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and received 15-year sentences.

27 September 2011

Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) expresses its deep concern to the systematic chain of violations that have been directed towards students after the pro-democracy uprising of February 14, where students were arrested, tortured and suspended
http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/en/node/4466. Violations did not stop there, as secondary school graduates have been discriminated against in the distribution of scholarships with new criteria for distribution based on the students' backgrounds and personal views.

September 24, 2011

(New York) – Universities inBahrain should immediately reinstate all students, faculty, and staff who were dismissed solely for expressing opinions critical of the government and ruling family or attending overwhelmingly peaceful anti-government demonstrations in February and March of this year, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch also called on the University of Bahrain to stop requiring students to sign oaths of loyalty to the ruling Al Khalifa family and the government as a condition for enrollment.

Photo: Bahrain riot police attacking one of Bahrain villages

23 September 2011

Washington, DC –The United States Government must break its silence on Bahrain and condemn today’s ongoing violent attacks on peaceful protestors, said Human Rights First.

14 Sep 2011

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights condemns the acts of systematic vandalism and robbery at gunpoint committed by the Bahraini security forces and army against pro-democracy protesters. Hundreds of thousands dinars in cash and valuable items have been robbed during home raids and at checkpoints. Hundreds of houses and cars have been vandalized in an attempt by Bahrain’s regime to silence protesters and suppress the pro-democracy movement.

Background

13 Sep 2011

Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its deepest concern over the deterioration of the educational system in Bahrain caused by unwarranted decisions taken by the government of Bahrain targeting teachers and university students. Recently: expelled university students have been summoned for investigation, students are on hunger strike in solidarity with their detained friends, and teachers are being transferred to schools in different areas also being dismissed and replaced by unqualified teachers.

Bahrain’s regime aims at the slight Shiites manpower in the police and the army by killing, torturing and imprisoning

This campaign comes after decades of excluding Shiites out of military

Bahrain’s regime aims at the slight Shiites manpower in the police and the army by killing, torturing and imprisoning

31 July 2011

Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its deep grave due to the crackdown led by the regime in Bahrain against anyone expressing his/her views demanding freedom, democracy and human rights, this time it affected the employees of both Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Defense which are chaired by members of the ruling family. The authorities have killed, arrested, and demobilized large numbers of their employees, BCHR has documented more than 248 cases.