Bahrain – Two Years of Death and Detentions
Muftah Editors | 15 Feb 2013
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) recently published its fifth quarterly report on the on-going human rights violations in Bahrain since the start of the pro-democracy movement on February 14, 2011. Among the violations included in the report are deaths, detentions, torture, kidnappings, and attacks against the country’s medical establishment....Bahrain’s Uprising
Yazan Al-Saadi* | 3 Mar 2011
As protests continue to sweep across the region, large-scale demonstrations in the Shiite majority Gulf state of Bahrain represent a serious, direct challenge to the more than 200-year rule of the country’s ruling Sunni Al-Khalifa family. Sparked by the recent upheavals and revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, and fueled by domestic discontent, the protests have...Maryam Al-Khawaja to Visit Bahrain
Daniel Tavana | 11 Jan 2013
Maryam Al-Khawaja, Acting Director of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, is scheduled to arrive in Bahrain later this evening, around 8pm Bahrain Time (AST). Al-Khawaja, whose father received a life sentence...
