Bahrain in the UK

05/05/2011

Start of executions campaign

Campaign website demanding an immediate end to the executions regularly carried out by the Al-Khalifa regime in Bahrain. Bahrain Peace and Justice Movement RAPAR - Manchester-based human rights...

28/04/2011

Bahrain is not on UN Radar Ban Ki Moon Spokesman Says

28/04/2011

NO MORE!

On this week's show: Bahrain - a small kingdom cracking down on the media in a big way. Plus, a look at state media in post-revolution Egypt.

28/04/2011

THEY WISH!

On this edition of Peter Lavelle's CrossTalk: how long will Bahrain remain in blackout? Why does the West appear so powerful in Libya and not in Bahrain, whe...

28/04/2011

and we continue....

Oxford Aviation Academy cancels lessons after request from regime, which wants students to return home for questioning

22/04/2011

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22/04/2011

Human rights conditions in Bahrain deteriorated sharply in the latter half of 2010. Starting in mid-August authorities detained an estimated 250 persons, including nonviolent critics of the government, and shut down websites and publications of legal opposition political societies.

22/04/2011

Unknown assailants lobbed teargas grenades at the home of a leading Bahraini human rights defender in the early hours of April 18, 2011. The attack, which took place at 3:30 a.m. in the village of Bani Jamra, targeted the home of Nabeel Rajab, head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and a member

22/04/2011

22/04/2011

We are writing as the officers of the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa division to express our grave concern regarding the deteriorating human rights situation in Bahrain. We are concerned in particular by the apparent targeting of human rights activists, inclu

22/04/2011

The United States has struggled to balance human rights principles and strategic concerns in responding to protests across the Middle East, from Tunisia to Iran. Too often, it has been behind the curve.

22/04/2011

The United States has struggled to balance human rights principles and strategic concerns in responding to protests across the Middle East, from Tunisia to Iran. Too often, it has been behind the curve.