On 24 November 2018, Bahrain held elections for the 40 seats of the lower house of parliament. As expected, these elections occurred with severe restrictions placed on civil and political society by the Bahraini government. The European Centre for Democracy ...
**Update 11 June 2018 – Today, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain confirmed the amendment to Law No. 14 relating to political exclusion. The amendment will soon be published in the Official Gazette. 31 May 2018 – The National ...
23 February 2018 – This year, Bahrain will hold the elections for the National Assembly – the second to take place in Bahrain since more than 200,000 people took the streets in February 2011 to demand more openness in the ...
The European Centre for Democracy and Human Rights is pleased to invite you to a seminar hosted by MEP Julie Ward on 20 February to discuss Bahrain’s upcoming 2018 elections amid an unabated human rights crisis in the country. This ...
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 ...
26 April 2017 – Bahraini authorities have initiated a new campaign of reprisals against political activists, human rights defenders, and other civil society actors ahead of the kingdom’s third cycle of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review ...
20 March 2017 – Political opposition leader Ebrahim Sharif was today charged with “inciting hatred against the regime” under article 165 of Bahrain’s penal code for messages he wrote on social media. Sharif was previously imprisoned from 2011 to 2015, ...
