Bahraini Court Hands Down Prison Sentences and Revokes Citizenships of 9...
21 May 2018 – Today, Bahrain’s Fourth High Criminal Court handed prison sentences to 10 Bahraini nationals and revoked 9 of them of their citizenship over terrorism-related charges according to the...
View ArticleBahraini Top Shia Cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim in London to Receive Urgent...
9 July 2018 - Today, Bahrain’s most prominent Shia cleric, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, arrived in London to receive medical treatment. He landed at 3:31pm at Heathrow Airport from Bahrain...
View ArticleBahraini Court Revokes 6 Bahraini Nationals of their Citizenship and...
15 October 2018 – The Fourth High Criminal Court handed prison sentences to seven Bahraini nationals and revoked the citizenship of six over terrorism charges related to the bombing of an oil pipeline...
View ArticleBahrain Sentences 4 to Death on Terrorism-Related Charges & Revokes Their...
12 November 2018 – Today, Bahrain’s Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced four individuals to death on charges related to terrorism, three of them being tried in absentia. The charges relate to an...
View ArticleBahrain Sentences Two to Death Following Severe Torture
29 November 2018 – Today, Bahrain’s Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced two individuals to death on alleged terrorism-related charges, and sentenced three others to between seven years and life...
View ArticleBAHRAIN: 7 Convicted to Life Imprisonment and 11 Revoked of their Citizenship...
7 February 2019 – Bahrain’s Fourth High Criminal Court issued prison sentences against 11 individuals, including female political activist Zakeya AlBarboori, and stripped them of their citizenship, the...
View ArticleBahrain Court Revokes Citizenship from 25 individuals in One Day
20 February 2019 – Yesterday, Bahrain’s Fourth High Criminal Court issued prison sentences against 39 defendants and stripped 25 of those individuals of their citizenship across three separate cases....
View ArticleBahraini Court Revokes 138 Individuals of their Citizenship and Sentences 69...
16 April 2019 – Today, Bahrain’s Fourth High Criminal Court handed prison sentences ranging from three years to life imprisonment to 139 Bahraini nationals, of whom 138 were revoked of their...
View Article5 UN Experts Call on Bahrain to Halt Executions of Two Individuals Amid...
21 May 2019 – Today, five UN experts appealed to Bahrain to halt the execution of two men, Ali Al-Arab and Ahmed Al-Malali, amid “serious concerns” that their convictions were based on confessions...
View ArticleParliamentary Event – The Crackdown on Human Rights in Bahrain
18 October – Yesterday, the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) and the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR) co-hosted an event at Parliament to highlight the deteriorating...
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