Human rights in Bahrain
Top Bahrain Activist Sentenced To 2 Years In Jail
A Bahraini court on Monday sentenced prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab to two years in jail after finding...
Banned Bahraini Newspaper Fires Staff
A independent Bahraini newspaper has sacked its staff three weeks after Sunni-dominated authorities banned it on...
One Dead In New Bahrain Bombing
A bomb in a Shiite village outside the Bahraini capital has killed one person, the second blast in a suburb of Manama...
Bahrain Follows Trump Trip With Dissent Crackdown
Authorities in Bahrain have clamped down on dissent in the wake of US President Donald Trump's visit to the Gulf last...
Bahrain Court Dissolves Secular Opposition Group
A Bahraini court dissolved a secular opposition party on Wednesday, a judicial official said, as authorities in the...
Bahrain Police Fire On Shiite Protest, One Reported Dead
Bahraini police opened fire Tuesday on a protest by supporters of a top Shiite cleric, with at least one demonstrator...
Protester Killed As Police Raid Bahrain Sit-In
A protester was killed Tuesday in a Bahraini police raid on a sit-in by supporters of a leading Shiite cleric put on...
Bahrain Sends First Civilian Case To Military Court
Bahrain has referred its first civilian case to a military court following a constitutional amendment approved by the...
Jailed Bahrain Activist On Hunger Strike
A prominent Bahraini activist jailed for life for his role in anti-regime protests has been on hunger strike for two...
Bahrain Cuts Opposition Chief’s Jail Term
Bahrain's top court on Monday reduced the jail sentence of Shiite opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman, who has been in...
Gulf Ministers Condemn Iran’s Support To Bahrain ‘terrorists’
Gulf ministers meeting in Riyadh on Thursday condemned what they termed Iran's support for "terrorist gangs" in Bahrain...
Bahrain Charges Opposition Figure With ‘inciting Hatred’
Bahraini liberal opposition figure Ibrahim Sharif was charged on Monday with "inciting hatred" against the regime with...
Bahrain Seeks Dissolution of Secular Opposition Party
Bahrain's justice ministry said Monday it filed a lawsuit to dissolve a secular opposition party, the state-run news...
Bahrain Approves Military Trial For Civilians
Bahrain's upper house of parliament on Sunday approved a constitutional amendment which grants military courts the...
Clashes Over Death of Shiite In Bahrain Police Raid
Bahrain police clashed with demonstrators following the death of a young man who attempted to escape arrest, witnesses...
Seven Killed As Baghdad Reform Protest Turns Violent
Seven people were killed in clashes that erupted in central Baghdad on Saturday between the security forces and...
‘Terrorists’ Freed In Bahrain Prison Raid
A security lockdown has been imposed around Jaw prison, south of the capital Manama, the interior ministry said. It did...