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Urgent Appeal/Bahrain- Prominent Human Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab Reportedly Missing

2013-05-15

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) and the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) express grave concern over the news of the removal of Nabeel Rajab from his cell to an unknown location. Nabeel Rajab…

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Bahrain - Human rights defender Naji Fateel to be detained for 60 days on anti-state charges after allegedly being tortured

2013-05-09

 According to reports received by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), the public prosecutor charged human rights defender Naji Fateel with alleged…

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Bahrain- Human rights defenders in prison, torturers walk free, and UN Special Rapporteur on torture has no access to the country

2013-05-02

 The Gulf Center for Human rights (GCHR) and the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) denounce the decision of the Bahraini authorities to cancel the visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on torture,…

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Bahrain: Arbitrary arrest and incommunicado detention of defender Naji Fateel; ongoing harassment and ill-treatment of activist Zainab Al-Khawaja

2013-05-02

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) call for urgent action by the international community to stop the ongoing attacks against human rights activists in Bahrain,…

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Bahrain- Health deterioration of detained human rights defender Nabeel Rajab

2013-04-22

The health of  human rights defender  Nabeel Rjab is reported to be deteriorating as he continues to serve a two years imprisonment at Jaw prison.   Nabeel Rajab is a prominent human rights…

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Bahrain- Human rights defenders Abdulhadi and Zainab Al-Khawaja on hunger strike protesting their ill-treatment

2013-03-22

 The Gulf centre for Human Rights (GCHR) received information that human rights defenders Abdulhadi and Zainab Al-Khawaja have started a hunger strike on 17 March 2013 protesting their ill-treatment.…

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