28th of November 2018 – The Supreme Court of Bahrain this Monday upheld a life sentence given to Shia opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman over charges of spying for neighboring country Qatar. On November 4th 2018, leading figure of the Bahraini opposition Ali Salman and ...
Bahrain: As Expected, Bahrain’s Parliamentary Elections Were Neither Free Nor Fair
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 ...
Bahrain: Ban on Opposition Ahead of 2018 Elections
**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 ...
Bahrain: At ECDHR’s event, EU policy-makers condemned the crackdown on human rights and called for a clear EU message ahead of 2018 elections
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 ...
Join our event “Bahrain: 2018 elections amid human rights crisis”
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 ...
Bahrain: MEP Schaake issues a Parliamentary Question on Bahrain’s dissolution of Wa’ad opposition party
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 ...
Bahrain: Widespread Reprisals against Activists Ahead of UPR
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 ...