6 August 2017 – The Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s silence on the sentencing of human rights figure Nabeel Rajab in Bahrain has been called “appalling” in a letter to the Foreign Secretary, signed by 17 rights groups & parliamentarians today. ...
1 August 2017 – On 9 March 2017, MEP Marietje Schaake (ALDE) issued a Parliamentary Question addressed to EU HR/VP Mogherini on the lawsuit filed to dissolve Wa’ad the country’s last leading opposition party. On 30 June 2017, Ms Mogherini ...
10 July 2017 –The Third Circuit Lower Criminal Court today sentenced Nabeel Rajab, President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, to two years in prison on charges solely based on his exercise of freedom of expression. The prosecution and ...
7 July 2017 – According to Nabeel Rajab’s lawyers, the Bahraini judiciary will issue a sentence on Monday 10 July in one of the two cases for which he is being prosecuted. In this case, Nabeel Rajab faces up to ...
5 July 2017 – Yesterday, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) debated with Christos Stylianides, European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, on the much-criticised election of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. ...
27 June 2017 – Alarmed by the deteriorating health of Nabeel Rajab, the Chair of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights, MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri made the following statement: “The President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), ...
22 June 2017 – Human rights campaigners* have told Formula 1 to “reconsider its plans for a 2018 race in Bahrain”, citing a crackdown on press freedoms and police brutality ahead of this weekend’s Baku Grand Prix. The Bahrain race ...
