Index joins more than 30 other organisations to raise concerns over the situation in the country 13 years after popular uprisings were quashed
Bahrain: Joint letter on human rights situation to the United Nations Human Rights Council
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Joint letter to mark 1000 days of hunger strike by Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace
Index has joined with more than 25 other human rights organisations to call for the release of the Bahraini human rights activist
Major new global free expression index sees UK ranking stumble across academic, digital and media freedom
A major new global ranking index tracking the state of free expression is published today
Bahrain must suspend Nabeel Rajab’s sentence
Nine international organisations have written a letter calling for Bahrain to suspend Nabeel Rajab’s current sentence.
The people most at risk in Bahrain “are those who choose to freely express themselves”
Index calls on the UK to stand up to the Bahrain government on human rights after police storm the London embassy to protect protester
Groups urge Amal Clooney to pressure UK to act on Bahrain’s abuse of freedom of expression
Fifteen international organisations have written to Amal Clooney to urge she pressure the UK to act on Bahrain’s human rights abuses.
Ebtisam Al-Saegh: “I think about justice and justice for the rest of the victims”
“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.
Groups call on Michelle Bachelet for heightened UN scrutiny of human rights violations in Bahrain
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
Bahraini injustice: Nabeel Rajab conviction for tweeting upheld
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.