Bahrain

Human Rights defender Nabeel Rajab subjected to ill-treatment in prison and placed in a solitary confinement

  • Bahrain
  • Bahrain
  • 21/08/2012

Further to our joint appeal on 16 August 2012 (Kindly see the following link:  https://www.gc4hr.org/news/view/221), the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and

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Bahrain emboldened by international silence, sentences Nabeel Rajab to 3 years imprisonment

  • Bahrain
  • Bahrain
  • 16/08/2012

The BCHR and GCHR condemn in the strongest terms the sentence passed today against the detained human rights defender Nabeel Rajab by the Bahraini government on charges

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An open letter from the family of Human Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab / To the governments of the USA, the UK and all governments who have influence on Bahrain And to the UN and all Regional and International Human Rights Organisations

  • Bahrain
  • Bahrain
  • 11/08/2012

  My name is Sumaya Rajab, the wife of the prominent Bahraini human rights defender, Nabeel Rajab, who is currently detained in Bahrain. I write this letter in my

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Calls for the immediate release of human rights defender Nabeel Rajab

  • Bahrain
  • Bahrain
  • 4/08/2012

Beirut, 04 August 2012- The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), call on the authorities in Bahrain to immediately release

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Arrest and Ill-treatment of Human Rights Defender Zainab Al-Khawaja

  • Bahrain
  • Bahrain
  • 3/08/2012

  Beirut, 03 August 2012- Human rights activist Zainab Al-Khawaja was yet again arrested last night when she was protesting alone in Al Qadam roundabout. Zainab

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Leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab imprisoned for three months over twitter

  • Bahrain
  • Bahrain
  • 9/07/2012

The Gulf Center for human Rights (GCHR) and Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) express their concerns regarding the continued campaign of judicial harassment, arrest

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Bahrain – Nine medics acquitted as others receive sentences between 1 month to 5 years

  • Bahrain
  • Bahrain
  • 14/06/2012

At the same time that the GCHR and BCHR welcome the acquittal of nine medics and the dropping of the two charges: possession of arms and the occupation of Salmaniya

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The re-arrest of leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab

  • Bahrain
  • Bahrain
  • 8/06/2012

Beirut, 08 June 2012 -- On the morning of 6 June 2012, prominent human rights defender, Nabeel Rajab has been re-arrested after he got a summons the day before on

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Rights organisations alarmed over threats to civil society after trip to UN

  • Bahrain
  • Bahrain
  • 8/06/2012

International human rights organisations who participated in the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Bahrain in Geneva in May Geneva are alarmed

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