14/04/2005.
CERD/C/BHR/CO/7. (Concluding Observations/Comments)

Convention Abbreviation: CERD
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION
OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
Sixty-sixth session
21 February-12 March 2005

CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES
UNDER ARTICLE 9 OF THE CONVENTION

Concluding observations of the Committee on the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination

BAHRAIN

1. The Committee considered the sixth and seventh periodic reports of Bahrain, submitted in one document (CERD/C/443/Add.1), at its 1689th and 1690th meetings (CERD/C/SR.1689 and 1690), held on 3 and 4 March 2005. At its 1700th meeting (CERD/C/SR.1700), held on 11 March 2005, it adopted the following concluding observations.

Gulf Daily News - Vol XXVIII NO. 23 - Tuesday 12 April 2005

AN appeal against the closure of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights is being switched to another court. The High Civil Appeal Court yesterday adjourned the case until April 19, for it to be transferred to the Administrative Court. BCHR lawyer Abdulla Al Shamlawi said that the case had been wrongly put before the appeal court due to a clerical error by court officials.

He said the appeal was launched after the High Civil Court threw out their previous case in January.

It ruled that the BCHR had no legal argument against the then Labour and Social Affairs Ministry, which closed it on September 28 for allegedly breaching the 1989 Societies Law.