Tag: Human rights in Bahrain

Bahrain has slapped terrorism charges on an activist who tweeted criticism of the government's treatment of women, Amnesty International said ...

A Bahraini court on Monday sentenced prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab to two years in jail after finding him ...

A independent Bahraini newspaper has sacked its staff three weeks after Sunni-dominated authorities banned it on accusations that it "sows ...

A bomb in a Shiite village outside the Bahraini capital has killed one person, the second blast in a suburb ...

Authorities in Bahrain have clamped down on dissent in the wake of US President Donald Trump's visit to the Gulf ...

A Bahraini court dissolved a secular opposition party on Wednesday, a judicial official said, as authorities in the Gulf state ...

Bahraini police opened fire Tuesday on a protest by supporters of a top Shiite cleric, with at least one demonstrator ...

A protester was killed Tuesday in a Bahraini police raid on a sit-in by supporters of a leading Shiite cleric ...

Bahrain has referred its first civilian case to a military court following a constitutional amendment approved by the king last ...

A prominent Bahraini activist jailed for life for his role in anti-regime protests has been on hunger strike for two ...

Bahrain's top court on Monday reduced the jail sentence of Shiite opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman, who has been in ...

Gulf ministers meeting in Riyadh on Thursday condemned what they termed Iran's support for "terrorist gangs" in Bahrain and urged ...

Bahraini liberal opposition figure Ibrahim Sharif was charged on Monday with "inciting hatred" against the regime with his tweets, a ...

Bahrain's justice ministry said Monday it filed a lawsuit to dissolve a secular opposition party, the state-run news agency said, ...

Bahrain's upper house of parliament on Sunday approved a constitutional amendment which grants military courts the right to try civilians, ...

Bahrain police clashed with demonstrators following the death of a young man who attempted to escape arrest, witnesses said Wednesday, ...

Seven people were killed in clashes that erupted in central Baghdad on Saturday between the security forces and protesters demanding ...

A security lockdown has been imposed around Jaw prison, south of the capital Manama, the interior ministry said. It did ...