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Senior US House Democrat Demands Saudi Arabia to Provide Information about HR Activist Loujain Al-Hathloul
2020-06-29
Representative Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, expressed his "continued concern" over Loujain Hathloul's treatment in a letter sent to Saudi Arabia's US ambassador, Reema bint Bandar Al-Saud.
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Amnesty Int'l: Norway, Bahrain & Kuwait Covid-19 apps Threaten Privacy
2020-06-23
An Amnesty International study of 11 Covid-19 contact tracing apps from Europe, the Middle East and North Africa found identified apps from Bahrain, Kuwait and Norway as the most dangerous to users' privacy, according to the Sc Magazine website.
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Bahrain: Teenage Prisoner Unable to Eat Due to Teeth Issues, Prison Administration Denies Him Treatment
2020-06-22
A 17-year-old Bahraini prisoner (legally a minor) complained about his inability to eat food after his teeth began to fall apart. He was denied treatment by the Dry Dock Prison Administration.
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Aya Majzoub from HRW: Bahrain should Release Prisoners who shouldn't Have Been Imprisoned in First Place
2020-06-17
Aya Majzoub, Bahrain Researcher at Human Rights Watch, said "the Bahraini Government should release people who should not have been held in detention in the first place."
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Torture Story of Political Detainee Zuheir Ibrahim who was Sentence to Death: HR Documentation
2020-06-16
The information mentioned in this report is a brief of a report issued by BCHR two years ago, in which it documented what happened to political prisoner Zuheir Ibrahim Jassim, whose death sentence was upheld on Monday (June 15, 2020) by the cassation court, noting that this was a final verdict pending the King's ratification.
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Nabeel Rajab, Icon from the Gulf
2020-06-11
It is difficult to count the number of summonses, interrogations, arrests and prison terms that have passed through Nabeel Rajab's life. We can call him Martin Luther of the Gulf. He; however, has his own journey of pain and suffering. He can be called just that, Nabeel Rajab, an icon from the Gulf.
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Australian Politician to GIDHR: Political Prisoners should be Released, We Need People Like Sheikh Ali Salman in the World
2020-06-06
Sue Bolton, Moreland councilor and member of Socialist Alliance in Australia, supported the calls by Bahraini human rights organizations to release the political prisoners from the jails in Bahrain.
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Before Speaking about Living Together in Peace, Remember that Regime Burnt all Bridges of Conversation with Opposition: Ibrahim Sarhan
2020-05-17
Marking the International Day of Living Together in Peace, Bahraini legal adviser Ibrahim Sarhan recalled in a series of tweets that "the oppression of the Bahraini regime has burnt all bridges of communication with the opposition."
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Bahrain Strengthens Its Presence in World of Spanish Football to Cover up Its HR Violations
2020-05-15
The Spanish El Mundo Newspaper said that the Kingdom of Bahrain, through "brutal repression" man who is accused of torture, Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, is strengthening its presence in the world of football in the Kingdom of Spain to cover up human rights violations.
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Former Head of RCSI Bahrain to GIDHR: Political Dissenters should be Granted Amnesty
2020-05-02
Professor Tom Collins, former Head of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland in Bahrain, said "all medics, all over the world, should call on regimes to grant political dissenters an amnesty."
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Australian MP Fiona Patten: Keeping Prisoners in Bahraini Prisons is HR "Travesty"
2020-04-24
Australian MP Fiona Patten described keeping prisoners in Bahraini prisons as a human rights "travesty".
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Activist Evan Jones to Bahraini Gov't: All Political Prisoners should be Released
2020-04-18
ctivist Evan Jones sent a clear message to the Bahraini government in which he said that COVID-19 is a global pandemic and that all political prisoners should be released, explaining that "this is not about political pressure, but human decency and providing essential health care protections to individuals inside Bahrain's borders."
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Australian Craig Foster to GIDHR: Int'l Community should Pressure Bahrain to Release Prisoners amid Coronavirus Crisis
2020-04-14
The international community should pressure Bahrain to release prisoners amid the Coronavirus epidemic, sports star Craig Foster told the Gulf Institute for Democracy and Human Rights.
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Ibtisam Al-Saegh and Najah Yousif Break Silence in Bahrain: BBC Arabic
2020-03-25
Najah Yousif, a Bahraini woman, told the BCC Arabic that she was tortured and raped in a security complex after protesting against Formula One in 2017. Another woman confirmed that she faced similar abuses in the same complex few weeks later. Bahrain Mirror publishes a summary on "Breaking the Silence in Bahrain" film.
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First Half of 2019 Witnessed 349 Arbitrary Arrests Including 20 Children: BFHR
2020-02-15
President of the Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR), Baqir Darwish, announced in a press conference held by three human rights organizations on Thursday (February 13, 2020) in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, entitled "Evaluation of violations in Bahrain during 2019" that: "In the first 6 months of 2019, 349 people, including 20 children and 3 women, were arbitrarily arrested."
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Who Killed Martyr Kadhem Al-Sehlawi?
2020-02-11
“I want them to return my son as healthy as they took him,” said the mother of cancer victim Sayed Kadhem Abbas Al-Sehlawi (23) when he was released in 2018, after his health condition sharply deteriorated.
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Blogger of "Sanawat Al-Jareesh" Jassim Al-Abbas Arrested
2020-02-03
Bahraini authorities arrested historical researcher, Jassim Hussein Al-Abbas, owner of the famous historical blog "Sanawat Al-Jareesh" over the charge of publishing wrong information. Al-Abbas was taken into custody after he was summoned for interrogation on January 30, 2020.
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2019 Roundup: At Least 500 Bahrainis Arrested in Raid Campaigns (BFHR)
2020-01-31
2019 raid campaigns resulted in the arrest of at least 500 Bahrainis, the Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) noted, stressing that most of the raids were carried out at night and unlawfully.
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Al-Wefaq: 133 Violations against Detainees, Prison Terms Exceeding 400 Years against 49 Citizens during December
2020-01-15
Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, the largest opposition society, said that it monitored, during December 2019, continuing serious human rights violations, increase in abuses of arbitrary sentences or violations against conditions of prisoners of conscience.
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EU Calls on Bahrain to Halt Execution of Mohammad Ramadan and Hussein Mousa
2020-01-10
The European Union confirmed in a statement by the European Union Spokesperson, Peter Stano, that the verdict issued by the Bahrain's High Criminal Court of Appeal confirming the death sentences for Mohammad Ramadan and Hussein Mousa was delivered despite reported concerns on the fairness of the trial.