Inmate Reportedly Beaten to Death at Bahrain’s Central Prison
On 6 November 2014, 36 year-old Hasan Majeed al-Shaikh was found dead at Bahrain’s Jaw prison. Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR)...
View ArticleBahrain: NGOs Condemn Refoulement of Ali Haroun
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), the Bahrain Human Rights Observatory (BHRO), the Bahrain Human Rights Society (BHRS), and the...
View ArticleNGOs Condemn Death Penalty Sentence of Mohammed Ramadan and Husain Ali Moosa
30 December 2014 - On 29 December, a Bahraini court sentenced Mohammed Ramadan and Husain Ali Moosa to death for their supposed involvement in a bomb explosion in al-Dair on 14 February 2014 that...
View ArticleBahrain: Family Of Enforced Disappearance Victim Mohsen Al-Majid Reports...
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its concern over reports of the security forces’ continued practice of torture and degrading treatment as a primary means of extracting confessions from...
View ArticleBahrain : Reports of Torture Haunt Bahrain's CID
Last week President Obama got it right about terrorism and its causes.Speaking at a Washington summit on countering violent extremism, he said "we have to address the political grievances that...
View ArticleAmnesty International: URGENT ACTION
TORTURED TO ‘CONFESS’, ACTIVIST NOW STANDS TRIALBahraini human rights activist Hussain Jawad stood trial on 17 March on the basis of confessions extracted from him under torture following his arrest....
View ArticleBCHR, ADHRB, BIRD Submit Report on Bahrain Torture to UN-CAT
13 April 2015, London – The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain and the Bahrain Center for Human Rights have prepared and submitted a report...
View ArticleBahrain: Halt systematic torture and allow UN SR on Torture to visit
On the occasion of June 26, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) reiterates its calls to put an end to the policy of systematic torture in...
View ArticleInside Jau: Report Finds Rampant Torture and Abuse Inside Bahrain’s Political...
26 June 2015 – Bahrain’s prison authorities continue to humiliate, torture and mistreat inmates at Jau Prison, according to a new report released today by Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in...
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Report - Imprisonment, torture and statelessness: The darkening reality of...
Human rights defenders in Bahrain are operating in a shrinking space, says the Observatory in a report published today.The report documents the judicial harassment of 11 human rights defenders...
View ArticleHassan Jaber Al Qattan Subjected to Torture in Jau Prison
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) expresses deep concern over the ongoing practice of torture in Bahrain, particularly in the prison system. Hassan Jaber Al-Qattan (27 years...
View ArticleBahrain: Court ignores complaints of torture and continues to try Mr Khalil...
Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) expresses its concern at the behaviour of the Bahraini authorities, which continue to ignore accusations of torture levelled by activists and prisoners of...
View ArticleBahrain: Torture and Unfair trials for opposition affiliates sends the 7th...
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) condemns the Bahraini authorities’ use of capital punishment in politically motivated cases amid concerns that charges are based on confessions extracted by...
View ArticleBahraini upholds death sentence for torture victim
16 November 2015 – Washington, DC - Bahrain’s Court of Cassation today rejected the final appeal of death row inmates and torture victims Mohammed Ramadan and Husain Moosa. The decision finalizes their...
View ArticleBahraini Court Approves Capital Punishment of Torture Victims
16 November 2015 – London – Bahrain’s Court of Cassation today rejected the final appeal of death row inmates and torture victims Mohammed Ramadan and Husain Moosa. The decision finalizes their...
View ArticleHRW report: Bahrain: Detainees Tortured, Abused
(Beirut, November 23, 2015) – Bahraini security forces are torturing detainees during interrogation, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Institutions set up after 2011 to receive and...
View ArticleBahrain’s Miscarriage of Justice in Sentencing 57 Jau Prisoners
On Monday, 25 January 2016, Bahrain’s public prosecutor announced that a court had sentenced 57 men to additional 15-year jail terms for their alleged involvement in the Jau Prison riots last March....
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From the Ground: Torture Systematic in Bahrain
Since October 2013, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) has regularly received complaints regarding individual allegations of human rights abuses in Bahrain. Generally, these...
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Bahrain 2015: Human Rights Violations From Practice To Policy
The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) publishes today its Annual Report on Human Rights Violations in Bahrain.The report is a summary of the human rights violations BCHR was able to document over...
View ArticleBahraini Government’s Claims of Having Implemented all BICI Recommendations...
On 9 May 2016, Bahrain celebrated the culmination of the work of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI), announcing that the implementation of all recommendations had been completed. The...
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