Over the last few months the Bahraini government has stepped up its domestic repression by imprisoning and exiling human rights defenders, shutting down the largest political opposition society, and arresting and imprisoning dozens of Bahrainis who exercise their right to free expression and freedom of assembly. Following the citizenship revocation of Sheikh Isa Qassim in[…]
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A British judge ruled last Wednesday that dual British-Saudi citizen, Amina Al-Jeffery, must be allowed to return to the UK from Saudi Arabia. The decision comes after 21-year-old Amina Al-Jeffery claimed that she is being kept in a cage by her father, Mohammed Al-Jeffery Ms. Al-Jeffery was born and raised in Swansea, Wales, but was forced[…]
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Click here to read Part One of our Voices from the Ground installment, #BahrainSpeaks Since the 2011 Bahraini uprisings, there has been a severe crackdown from the government on the civil liberties of the country’s citizens. Years of mass incarceration, torturing political prisoners, and repressing the freedoms of speech and assembly have finally culminated in[…]
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Raif Badawi, a Saudi blogger, creator of the “Free Saudi Liberals” website, and advocate for freedom of expression, continues to languish in the kingdom’s Dhahban Central Prison. Saudi authorities arrested Badawi in 2012 on a charge of insulting Islam through electronic channels and brought him to court on numerous additional charges, including apostasy. He was[…]
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On 30 July 2016, the Bahrain News Agency (BNA), the state news agency of Bahrain, released a statement on behalf of The Labour and Social Development Ministry regarding the activities of its National Child Committee. BNA noted that the Ministry and the Committee will convene to submit a 2017 report to the United Nations Committee[…]
