Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission
Hearing on Human Rights Situation in Bahrain

“The Human Rights Situation In Bahrain”

Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission

Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2200

April 27, 2010, 12:00 – 1:30 PM

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights announces the launch of the SMS Service for the subscribers of Blackberry, to inform the subscribers of all the latest updates in the Bahraini human rights field in Arabic and English, and especially those that are not published in daily newspapers.

URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY

BHR 003 / 0410 / OBS 052

Bahrain
April 27, 2010

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Bahrain.

Description of the situation:

The Bahraini Authorities Ban Publication in the Case of the Minister Accused of Corruption Due to the Possible Involvement of an Official from the Ruling Family

Authority Panels Deliberately gave the Case a Sectarian Scope, and Targeted the Weakest Link to Cover-Up on Major Corruption

18 April 2010

Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC) Hearing:

The Human Rights Situation in Bahrain

Noon-1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 27
2200 Rayburn House Office Building

Please join the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission at a hearing on the human rights situation in Bahrain. The hearing is open to the media and the interested public.

15 April 2010

A Campaign against the Human Rights Institutions in Coordination with a Former Minister in Saddam's Government

Bahrain's torture problem
by Joe Stork

Published in: Foreign Policy.March 31, 2010