Bahrain Center for Human Rights

Naji Fateel and Hasan Al-Jaber were arrested while participating in a march towards the Pearl Roundabout in Manama city on 14 February.

The IFEX-TMG calls on the government to immediately pass the application decrees regarding the establishment of the HAICA – a regulatory body consisting of experts and representatives of all stakeholders to protect media against all forms of corruption and abuse.

This is the second time in the last two months that Zainab Al-Khawaja, who uses the Twitter handle @angryarabiya, has been arrested by security forces.

Twenty-nine IFEX members have signed a letter to the Prosecutor General about the detention of editor Igor Vinyavsky, whose detention is believed to be politically motivated, calling for him to be released and for the evidence leading to his arrest to be made public.

BCHR demands that Bahrain’s membership in the UNESCO IBE be frozen, and contingent on the authorities taking steps to put an end to the targeting of members of the education sector.

Several of the activists who will participate in the hunger strike are in poor health and it is expected that essential medical treatment will be withheld.

The five policemen are accused of having beaten to death online journalist Zakariya Rashid Hassan AlAsheri and Ali Isa Saqer.

On 13 December 2011, the Criminal Court sentenced racing champion Mohamed AlKhunaizi to two years’ imprisonment on charges of illegal gathering and inciting hatred against the regime.

Athletes are still taken to prison for exercising legitimate rights