16 June 2016 – Concerned at recent reports in Bahrain of intimidation of human rights defenders and activists for peacefully promoting human rights, as well as for legitimately...
As the 32nd Session of United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) opened in Geneva on 13 June, Nabeel Rajab, Bahrain's most high profile human rights defender, was arrested after...
Responding to news that the prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab was arrested in Bahrain this morning, James Lynch, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle...
When fellow revolutionaries and activists had to flee Bahrain, I was always grateful not to be in their shoes. I was born and lived in exile until I was 17. Until then, I had...
13 June 2016 - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights today warned that repression "will not eliminate people's grievances" in his opening statement at the 32nd UN Human Rights...
13 June 2016- Bahrain security forces arrested leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab, President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), Founding Director of the Gulf...
A political dissident from Bahrain, who was recently released from prison after the government there faced international outrage, said on Saturday that she had fled the country...
The undersigned NGO's are seriously alarmed with Bahrain’s imposition of travel bans against human rights defenders attempting to take part in the 32nd Session of the UN Human...
On 06 June 2016, human rights defender Zainab Al-Khawaja and her two children, Jude and Abdulhadi Jr, arrived in Denmark, where she is a dual citizen, after she was forced to...
From Amnesty International
Ibrahim Karimi has been sentenced to two years and one month in prison on charges including “publicly insulting the King” which he has...