Bahrain Center for Human Rights

Protests have been held this week around the world to support jailed human rights defender Nabeel Rajab to mark the Global Week of Action which aims to draw attention to the ongoing injustice Rajab is being subjected to.

Bahraini human rights defenders Abdulhadi Al Khawaja and his daughter Zainab Al Khawaja are on hunger strike in protest at being denied visits from their family. Zainab has been striking since 17 March 2013.

Women activists in Bahrain don’t have much to celebrate on International Womens Day as reports of torture, harassment, and arrests keep filtering out of the island kingdom.

A verdict is expected to be reach on 11 March 2013 regarding the case of Bahraini human rights defender Said Yousif Al-Muhafdah.

Al-Khawaja was arrested after staging a one-person protest in front of Al Qudaibiya Palace in Manama on 27 February to demand the release of Mahmood Al-Jazeeri’s body who died due to a head injury during one of the anniversary protests.

Death threats, physical attacks, an emergence of hate speech and accusations of official censorship of critical media have escalated the perilous situation for freedom of expression in Tunisia, say over 20 IFEX members.

As local and international rights organisations held events and activities surrounding the second anniversary of Bahrain’s pro-democracy uprising, protests across the country were met with violence from the authorities resulting in the death of a teenage boy.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has appointed police officer Bassam Al-Muraj, who has been accused of torture by local and international human rights organisations, to the position of general director of the anti-corruption, economic, and electronic security department at the General Directorate.