Bahrain is an apartheid regime: Rajab 23 Jan.15 – PressTV Prominent Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab says the Manama regime has created an apartheid system in the Persian Gulf country, Press TV reports. Rajab told Press TV in an interview on Thursday that the Bahraini government has built an apartheid system by separating Shias more »
Bahrain: security forces shoot boy to the face AlWefaq – 1 Feb.14 Bahrain’s claims of investigations into police human rights abuses are yet again smashed as a picture of a boy’s face, which was covered in blood, emerged last Friday. Just days after the Interior Ministry’s announcement to open an investigation into a police shooting more »
Bahrain security forces shoot directly at protester’s face Hussain Radhi – BCHR – 21 Jan.15 A video has emerged showing Bahrain security forces appearing to shoot a protester in the face at close range, using birdshots. According to activists, the video was filmed Tuesday in the capital Manama’s suburb of Bilad al-Qadeem, which has seen more »
What The Police’s ‘Non Lethal Weapons’ Can Do To Human Bodies by Tara Culp-Ressler – 18 August – Think Progress Police advance after tear gas was used to disperse a crowd of protesters in Ferguson, MO on Sunday – AP Photo/Charlie Riedel The ongoing unrest in Ferguson over 18-year-old Mike Brown’s shooting has illustrated the more »
9 Bahraini Human Rights Organisations Launched a Campaign for the Release of the Blind Detainee Jafar Matooq 18 August, 2014 SHAFAQNA – 9 Bahraini human rights organisations along with human rights activists in Bahrain have launched a campaign for the release of Bahraini blind detainee Jafar Matooq, who is in urgent need of treatment. This more »
Children of Bahrain: Those who oppose the regime are in prisons 01 August, 2014 – Shafaqna SHAFAQNA – Why are more than 190 Bahraini children spending Eid inside the prison cells of the “Prison Island” as, the US Assistant Secretary of State, Tom Malinowski described it? The very first Eid to occur during the period more »
20 July, 2014 – Urgent Isa Haider Alaali is a 19 year old who has spent ELEVEN months in prison, six in Bahrain and five months in Harmondsworth and Campsfield Detention Centres. If he returns to Bahrain he will be in the terrible Jaw Prison, with severe overcrowding and abuse and little food or water. more »