20 May 2010

Reporters Without Borders is very concerned to learn that the culture and information ministry announced yesterday that it was suspending the pan-Arab satellite TV station Al Jazeera’s activities in Bahrain until further notice.

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.

Bahrain's torture problem
by Joe Stork

Published in: Foreign Policy.March 31, 2010

By Joshua Colangelo-Bryan
Published in The Huffington Post
February 25, 2010

25 February 2010
Alert
Authorities suspend permits of two foreign correspondents

(BCHR/IFEX) - The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) expresses its great concern regarding the persistance of the authorities in their campaign to restrict journalists and correspondents of the foreign press and international news agencies. The Bahraini authorities recently suspended the activity of correspondents from certain French and German news agencies.

18 February 2010
The Observatory has been informed by the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR) about the slandering media campaign launched against Mr. Nabeel Rajab, President of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), Mr. Mohamed Al-Maskati, BYSHR President, and Mr. Abdul Ghani Al-Khanjar, Spokesperson of the National Committee for Martyrs and Victims of Torture (NCMVT).

HomeBahrain: Media harassment of human rights defenders Mr Nabeel Rajab, Mr Mohamed Al-Maskati and Mr Abdul Ghani Al-Khanjar
Posted on 2010/02/18

Alert - Bahrain
9 February 2010

Authorities prohibit publishing houses from exhibiting books

(BCHR/IFEX) - The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its great concern regarding the Bahraini authorities' banning of 25 Shiite Lebanese publishing houses from exhibiting their books in the annual book fair, planned to be held in the Bahraini capital of Manama on 17 March 2010.

Lord Avebury, the Vice-Chairman of the Parliamentary HR Group invites you to a

Press Conference

Human Rights Watch is launching a comprehensive report on

“The Revival of Physical Coercion during Interrogations in Bahrain”

Joe Stork, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa Division and

Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, a consultant with Human Rights Watch and senior attorney in the New York office of Dorsey & Whitney LLP will present the report.

We’ll go back to the 1990s.
—Ministry of Interior officer to detainee Nadr Ali Ahmad al-Salatne