15 September 2017 – On Tuesday, in a statement during the 36th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the EU expressed deep concern over the ongoing human rights abuses in Bahrain. It urged “the authorities to respect the ...
14 September 2017 – Yesterday, the European Parliament adopted a resolution urging EU Member States to improve the implementation of the EU Common Position on Arms Export. The resolution calls for more transparency, a supervisory body and a sanctions mechanism for ...
31 August 2017 – Today, ahead of the 36th session of the UN Human Rights Council , the European Centre for Democracy and Human Rights (ECDHR) along with other international human rights organisations have sent letters to 56 governments calling ...
23 August 2017 – A group of international NGOs sent a letter to the Bahraini government to request information concerning Sayed Alawi Hussain al-Alawi. Sayed Alawi is a victim of enforced disappearance; the Bahraini authorities have forcibly disappeared him for ...
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 ...
