HRW: “The Court is Satisfied with the Confession”

  In a February 2019 letter to the United Nations Office in Geneva, the government ...

Bahrain pulls out of U.N. human rights body election after criticism

  Bahrain will no longer run in an election to the U.N.’s top human rights ...

Two Bahraini Journalists Banned from Entering the UAE

  The UAE security authorities prevented Bahraini journalists Wafa Al-Aamm and Nazeeha Saeed from entering ...

Sheikh Al-Meqdad was insulted by security forces

  In an audio recording, Sheikh Abduljalil Al-Meqdad revealed that he had been subjected to ...

Bahrain Press Association – The Semi-annual report 2022: 15 infringements of the rights of press and media professionals and cyberactivists

  In Bahrain, the first half of 2022 witnessed a number of violations against journalists ...

Fears of tuberculosis outbreak at prison as detainees fall ill

A Bahraini political prisoner with tuberculosis says he fears he will die soon if authorities withhold further ...

Two Bahrainis are at Imminent Risk of Execution in Saudi Arabia

The undersigned organisations express their concern that two young Bahrainis, Jaafar Sultan and Sadiq Thamer, ...

Dawn MENA: What Was Really Behind Bahrain’s Normalization With Israel?

By: Yahya AlHadid, Chairman of Gulf Institute for Democracy and Human Rights- GIDHR When then-U.S. ...

The Death Penalty against Bahraini Citizens in Saudi Arabia is Arbitrary and a Violation of the Application of Local Law

Our organizations consider the death sentences issued by the Saudi Criminal Court against Bahraini citizens ...

Two female activists in Bahrain and Jordan hacked with NSO spyware

The plight of women’s rights campaigners in Bahrain and Jordan is in the spotlight after new revelations ...