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13Feb

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Bahrain F.H.Rights: Russian ambassador supports the right of peoples to self-determination

NOVANEWS During his visit to Russian Embassy in BeirutBahrain Forum for Human Rights: Russian ambassador supports the right of peoples to self-determination "Russia support the right of self-determination of peoples call for freedom and justice," said Alexander Zaspakn Ambassador of the Russian Federation during a meeting with a delegation from Bahrain Forum for Human Rights in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Friday, stressing at the same time his country's support for the national dialogue with the participation of all groups to get out of the political crisis which hits Bahrain since nearly a year and eight monthsThe ambassador added that he would convey what was discussed at this meeting, particularly with regard to the fact that the Bahraini authorities have revoked citizenshi...

13Feb

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B.F.H.Rights launches the Monthly Indicator: 995 violations in January in Bahrain

The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights launches the Monthly Indicator: 995 violations in January in Bahrain To download the report click here With thebeginning of 2018, the human rights situation in Bahrain continued todeteriorate. 995 serious human rights violations were observed between January 1and January 31, 2018, including arbitrary arrests, house raids, unfair trials,suppression of peaceful protests, restrictions on freedom of movement,prohibition of Friday prayers, media materials that incite hate speech,enforced disappearance, torture and ill-treatment. Arbitrary arrests, raids and restrictions on freedom of movement 121 cases of arbitrary arrest, including 6 children, were recorded,climaxing on January 23, 2018 and amounting to 44 unlawful arrests and 138 raids on houses and re...

13Feb

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Bahraini Zionist embassy: Misinformation on A.I report

NOVANEWS Misinformation on Amnesty International in Bahraini embassy report In response to erroneous statements by the Bahraini embassy in London about the organization’s planned work on Bahrain, Amnesty International clarified today its recent discussions with the embassy and urged the authorities in general to respond positively to human rights concerns it raises and to its repeated requests for access to the country for it and other human rights organizations. On 5 January 2018, the Bahrain News Agency (BNA) published the annual report of the Bahraini embassy to the United Kingdom entitled, “Tireless efforts to confirm the Kingdom’s presence and to identify its positions and defend its interests”. The report included two paragraphs relating to the embassy’s wor...

13Feb

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Bahrain: Enforced disappearance of 15 citizens from 7 different areas continues

NOVANEWS BFHR: Enforced disappearance of 15 citizens from 7 different areas continues To Read Click Here The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) said that 15 cases of continued enforced disappearance were monitored. Citizens were forcibly disappeared from seven Bahraini areas, which are Duraz, Al-Dair, Sitra, Bilad Al-Qadeem, Al-Naim, Samaheej and Jurdab. The BFHR stressed that the enforced disappearance is one of the many abuses practiced by the authorities, which have a record full of human rights violations. In addition, the BFHR added that the security authorities deliberately develop new sorts of retaliatory actions against the prisoners of conscience in order to pressure them and their families, such as depriving the victims’ families of knowing th...

13Feb

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Bahrain: Relatives of exiled activists continue to be targeted amid ongoing unrest

NOVANEWS The signatory human rights organizations express their condemnation over the continued targeting and harassment of human rights defenders and their families. "Human rights defenders have been subjected to systematic and continuous violations, including arbitrary detention, travel bans and torture". Testimonies documented by reliable human rights organizations confirmed the continued target and harassment of also the families of human rights defenders. The signatory organizations confirmed that they have monitored and documented the abuse committed by members of the security services against Yunes Ahmed Sultan, a Bahraini citizen, who is also the brother of human rights defender Mohammed Sultan, member of Bahrain Center for Human Rights. This abuse had rev...

13Feb

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Bahrain: Kingdom of Persecution

NOVANEWS Kingdom of Persecution Today SALAM for Democracy & Human Rights has issued a distinctive report (attached) on titled: “Kingdom of Persecution”. The report aimed at monitoring human rights violations committed against Shiite clerics in Bahrain between the years 2011 and 2017. These violations included death sentences, life imprisonment, citizenship revocation, enforced deportation, arbitrary detention, harsh prison sentences, where many religious scholars are subjected to humiliation and physical torture. This report reveals that the security authorities in Bahrain summoned 156 Shiite religious clerics only for speeches, ideological tendencies or political views. The report likewise shows that 89 religious scholars have been arbitrarily arrested by th...

13Feb

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Bahrain: The Prospects of the continuation of military trial

BFHR: The Prospects of the continuation of military trial for civilian victims are crumbling and the authorities insist on intensifying sanctions The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) said in a statement that the prospects of the continuation of the military trial of civilian victims, some of whom have been sentenced to death, are crumbling in light of the flagrant violation of the principles and guarantees of fair trials. The BFHR pointed out that the proceedings of the trial and the exhaustion of litigation levels through the appeal stage clearly indicate maliciousness, especially since complaints of torture and ill-treatment were ignored and the judiciary lacks independence. The BFHR added that the judge deliberately closed his eyes on article 14 of the Inte...

13Feb

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Bahrain: Secret military courts begin to try civilians

N N BFHR: Secret military courts begin to try civilians, some of whom have been subjected to enforced disappearance for 13 months The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights said that a secret military court began on Thursday November 2, 2017 to try civilians, some of whom have been subjected to enforced disappearance for 13 months The BFHR stressed that the serious human rights violations against detainees under trial in the military judiciary foreshadow the course of the upcoming judicial disaster in the cases of freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, as a result of the use of certain articles in the Military Judiciary Law to commit abuses in violation of the International Bill Of human rights. The BFHR pointed out that the vic...

13Feb

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Bahrain: Death or Confession

NOVANEWS "Death or Confession": a report by human rights organizations monitors the torture of civilians in Bahrain's first military trial Four Bahraini human rights organizations issued a report under the title of "Death or Confession", a report that monitors the violations due to secret military courts that tried civilians whose confessions were extracted under torture. These civilian were accused of attempting to commit crimes against Bahrain Defense Force, including human rights activist Mohammed Al Mutghawi and Sayed Alawi Husain, who is the personal attendant of the highest religious cleric in Bahrain Shaikh Isa Qassim. It is important to note that this is now the first military trial for civilians since the recent legal amendment to the military judiciary. T...

12Feb

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Bahrain: A Crime Outside Coverage a human rights report

NOVANEWS A Crime Outside Coverage a human rights report on the grave violations in suppressing the peaceful assembly near the house of Ayatollah Qassim Four Bahraini human rights organizations, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, the Bahrain Forum for Human Rights, Salam for Democracy and Human Rights, and the Gulf Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, published a report monitoring grave violations in suppressing the Duraz peaceful assembly on May 23, 2017, after the security forces used excessive force to end the gathering, which lasted about a year near the house of the highest religious authority for Shiites in Bahrain, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, in a report entitled: A Crime Outside Coverage. Yahya al-Hadid, head of the Gulf Institute for Democracy and ...