Bahrain Center for Human Rights

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Protesters holding placards with images of Bahrain's leading Shi'ite cleric Isa Qassim, take part in an anti-government protest in the village of Diraz, 12 August 2016, REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed

Bahrain’s campaign of reprisals ahead of UPR

What do you do when the world is about to assess your human rights record? If you are Bahrain, you jail activists, human rights defenders, journalists and lawyers, of course.

REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

Hungary’s academic freedom and expression at risk due to changes to education law

IFEX members call on EU officials to condemn Hungary’s attack on the Central European University as a threat to academic freedom and free expression.

AP / Jon Gambrell

UAE: Free prominent rights defender Ahmed Mansoor held on speech-related charges

91 NGOs call on UAE to immediately and unconditionally release award-winning human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor

Protestors in Mexico City hold up signs demanding justice for slain journalist Miroslava Breach, Associated Press/ Eduardo Verdugo

Spike in journalist killings in Mexico spurs international calls for justice

IFEX members around the world denounce the alarming rate of journalist murders in Mexico and demand a thorough evaluation of existing protection mechanisms.

Human rights activist Nabeel Rajab (2nd R) poses with his wife Sumaiya (R), his daughter Malak (2nd L) and his son Adam as they arrive at court for his appeal hearing in Manama, February 11, 2015. He is now imprisoned on different charges. , REUTERS/Hamad Mohammed

Bahrain targets families of exiled, jailed activists as form of intimidation

As if exile and jail were not enough, Bahrain’s government is using an even crueller form of punishment to intimidate activists and stop internal dissent.

Anniversary date of the Bahrain 14 February 2011 uprising spelled out in gas canisters, Bahrain Center for Human Rights

Six years on: Bahrain’s human rights crisis deepens

Six years ago today began the largest protest movement in Bahrain’s history. Six years on, the situation has regrettably grown increasingly worse.

Bahraini mourners carry signs and chant anti-government slogans during the funeral for a protester in Sanabis in the suburbs of the capital of Manama, Bahrain, Sunday, July 6, 2014., AP Photo/Hasan Jamali

Bahraini parents sentenced to jail for protesting their children’s killings

Bahrain sentences three parents to jail for protesting the killing of their sons by security forces.

Link to: Executions spark mass protests and Bahraini authorities respond with force

Executions spark mass protests and Bahraini authorities respond with force

On 15 January 2017, shortly after the Bahraini government announced that the executions of three men had been carried out, 150 peaceful marches set out in 38 locations across Bahrain.