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While we all know about Jeremy Corbyn’s support for the Palestinian struggle, his progressive foreign policy positions do not end there. Many oppressed peoples are looking at Corbyn’s record of supporting their struggles and daring to dream about what could happen if he became UK Prime Minister. (...)
Bahrain: Human rights defender Ghada Jamsheer freed from prison, allowed to work off remainder of her sentence
Women’s rights defender, writer and blogger Ghada Jamsheer was freed on 12 December after four months in prison in Bahrain, after reaching an agreement to work for the rest of her (...)
On 29 August 2016, the government of Bahrain prevented Nedal Alsalmam, Head of International Relation and Women and Children Advocacy at the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, from leaving the country. She was informed by the airport officials that the decision is based on an order by the public (...)
At a time when the world is transfixed by events in Saudi Arabia, Bahrainis speak about the inexorable silencing of dissenting voices
Mohammed al-Tajer is a brave man. He is a Bahraini lawyer who has defended activists in the Gulf island kingdom for over a decade, among them the well-known (...)
Ahmed Ismael, 22-years old, was a citizen journalist from Salmabad village in Bahrain. His task as a revolutionary was to document the Western-backed Bahraini authorities’ attacks on peaceful protestors in his neighbourhood and across Bahrain. While he was holding his camera, trying to have his (...)
Open letter to The Great Nation of United States of America and all Free World: Please protect us on 14 August 2013 from fatal crackdown.
We are writing Open letter to The Great Nation of United States of America and all Free World as we are group of Bahraini youths who are the founder of (...)
Friday 13 April 2012 by siawi3 The Women Human Rigts Defenders International Coalition
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HM King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa Office of The King The Amiri Court, Rifa’a Palace PO Box 555 Manama
Bahrain 11th April 2012 Your Highness: The Women Human Rights Defenders (...)
Today the Supreme Judicial Council of Bahrain refused to allow Abdulhadi Alkhawaja to travel to Denmark for medical treatment. Today is also the anniversary of Abdulhadi’s brutal arrest and detention and marks his 60th day on hunger strike.
Abdulhadi AlKhawaja in hospital, April 6, 2012
PRESS (...)
This is the thought constantly running through my head.
As a human rights defender I have learned to numb my emotions and continue working. I have been working on covering human rights violations in Bahrain for more than two years now, documenting all the arbitrary arrests, systematic torture, (...)
The small island nation of Bahrain sits in the Persian Gulf, between Saudi Arabia and Qatar. When the Tunisian and Egyptian uprising toppled U.S.-backed dictators last year, all of the region’s dictatorships trembled, including Bahrain. The winds of change inspired Bahrain’s downtrodden, and the (...)
A LabourStart campaign in partnership with the Education International, the world’s largest federation of unions, representing thirty million education employees in about four hundred organisations in one hundred and seventy countries and territories, across the globe. (...)
The trial was like a scene from a bad play: for seven hours in June, third-rate actors played the roles of unscrupulous prosecutors and a military judge fabricating evidence to convict twenty doctors and medical staff of trying to overthrow the Bahrain monarchy. The judge scolded defense (...)
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Bahrain.
Crackdown on the trade union (...)
An uncertain calm has settled over the small island kingdom of Bahrain. The wave of peaceful pro-democracy protests from February 14-17 culminated in bloodshed, including the brutal murder of seven activists, some of whom were asleep in tents, by the armed forces. On orders from above, the army (...)
Bahrain is not Egypt. Bahrain is not Tunisia. And Bahrain is not Libya or Algeria or Yemen. True, the tens of thousands gathering again yesterday at the Pearl roundabout – most of them Shia but some of them Sunni Muslims – dressed themselves in Bahraini flags, just as the Cairo millions wore (...)
February 15, 2011 — The Progressive Democratic Forum expresses deep condolences to the masses of Bahraini people, the families of martyrs and Fadel Ali Mushaima, who was shot at the hands of security forces, which brutally dealt with young people who marched [on February 14] in peaceful marches (...)
“Massacre – it’s a massacre,” the doctors were shouting. Three dead. Four dead. One man was carried past me on a stretcher in the emergency room, blood spurting on to the floor from a massive bullet wound in his thigh.
A few feet away, six nurses were fighting for the life of a pale-faced, bearded (...)
Bahrain’s Progressive Democratic Forum issues the following statement as the Bahrain’s rulers deploy riot police and mercenaries to attack peaceful protesters camped in Pearl Square.
February 17, 2011 — MRZine — Security forces raided at dawn today on Pearl Square, which was the centre of (...)
February 17, 2011
Dear comrades of various leftist parties and organisations,
The Bahraini people went out on the streets on February 14, the 10th anniversary of the National Action Charter — the national reform document on which people voted in a referendum in 2001, with 98.4% in favour.
The (...)
MANAMA, Bahrain — Riot police firing tear gas and rubber bullets stormed a landmark square occupied by anti-government protesters Thursday, driving out demonstrators and destroying a makeshift encampment that had become the hub for demands to bring sweeping political changes to the kingdom.
The (...)
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