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Sep 15 2023 3:34pm
Bahrain/UK: human rights defender Maryam Al-Khawaja prevented from boarding flight at Heathrow
Activist was set to travel to Bahrain to lobby for her jailed father’s...
Jul 28 2023 12:01pm
Kuwait: Five hanged as execution spree continues into second year
One execution was for drug offences Kuwait has executed 12 people ...
May 24 2022 4:18pm
Saudi Arabia set to execute two Bahraini men after 'grossly unfair' trial
Jaafar Sultan and Sadeq Thamer held in solitary confinement for three-...
Apr 1 2022 5:01pm
Bahrain: jailed human rights defender at risk of going blind after denial of medical care
Daughter of Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja believes her father is being delibera...
Feb 18 2022 6:18pm
Bahrain: devices of three activists hacked by notorious Pegasus spyware - new investigation
Lawyer, journalist and mental health counsellor targeted after publicl...
Apr 9 2021 3:47pm
Bahrain: more than 70 new Covid cases in major outbreak at Jaw prison
Prisoners not given face masks or hand sanitiser despite overcrowded c...
Feb 11 2021 10:07am
Bahrain: ten years on from Pearl Roundabout protests, human rights situation 'worse'
Mass protests crushed and independent inquiry ignored Crackdown on ...
Dec 14 2020 12:43pm
Urgent Action Outcome: Activist returned to Pakistan and released
On 8 March 2020, the Bahrain authorities forcefully returned Geelaman ...
Jun 16 2020 11:00am
Bahrain, Kuwait and Norway's contact-tracing apps among most privacy-infringing
COVID-19 apps putting privacy and security of hundreds of thousands at...
Jun 9 2020 6:55pm
Bahrain: Human rights activist Nabeel Rajab released after four years in jail
Nabeel has repeatedly been targeted for his human rights work and peac...