On 18 July 2017, a Manama appeals court confirmed the verdict of a lower Bahraini court in the case of Nazeeha Saeed, correspondent for Radio Monte Carlo Doualiya and France 24,...
On 19 July, woman human rights defender Ebtisam Al-Saegh, member of Salam for Democracy and Human Rights, was charged by Bahrain’s Terrorism Crimes Prosecution office with “...
On the occasion of Nelson Mandela International Day 2017, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) whose President Nabeel Rajab has been described as being “the next Nelson...
The first six months of 2017 have seen increasing instances of intimidation and reprisals against human rights defenders, journalists, and active members of civil society in...
Following the alarming evidence that EU-made electronic surveillance equipment is still being exported to authoritarian countries around the world, we strongly urge all EU member...
On July 10 the Bahraini Court sentenced the prominent Human Rights Defender and the President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) Nabeel Rajab to two years in prison in...
Letter to EU Amb. Letter to UK Amb. Letter to Swiss Amb. Letter to Netherlands Amb. Letter to German Amb. Letter to French Amb. Letter to Canadian Amb. Letter to Australian Amb...
According to Nabeel Rajab’s lawyers and a social media statement published by his family on 4 July, the Bahraini judiciary will issue a sentence on 10 July in one of the two cases...
Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women Dr. Dubravka Simonovic
OHCHR-UNOG,
8-14 Avenue de la Paix
1211 Geneva 10,
Switzerland
Assistant Secretary-...
We, the human rights defenders in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), along with other colleagues gathered at the IFEX25 Strategy Conference & General Meeting in Montreal...
