Index joins more than 30 other organisations to raise concerns over the situation in the country 13 years after popular uprisings were quashed
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Index has joined with more than 25 other human rights organisations to call for the release of the Bahraini human rights activist
A major new global ranking index tracking the state of free expression is published today
Nine international organisations have written a letter calling for Bahrain to suspend Nabeel Rajab’s current sentence.
Index calls on the UK to stand up to the Bahrain government on human rights after police storm the London embassy to protect protester
Fifteen international organisations have written to Amal Clooney to urge she pressure the UK to act on Bahrain’s human rights abuses.
“My main objective is to tell about the truth and whatever is going on on the ground,” said Ebtisam Al-Saegh, a Bahraini human rights activist, told Index on Censorship.
NGOs call for co-ordinated international action and public scrutiny to address the government of Bahrain’s ongoing attacks on civil society and to hold the kingdom accountable to its commitments to international human rights laws and standards
Bahrain’s Court of Cassation has upheld human rights activist Nabeel Rajab’s five-year conviction for critical tweets made from his account condemning Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen and the use of torture at Bahrain’s notorious Jau Prison.