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April 29, 2021 at 3:48 pm The fate of four Yemeni journalists is in the hands of US President Joe Biden, Dr Khalid Ibrahim and Dr Ikram Ais have told me as they explained the details of their campaign for their release. Ibrahim is the Executive Director of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights, while Ais is Co-Director of Activism at the Harvard Law School's Advocates for Human Rights. They have sent a letter to Biden urging him to call for the immediate release of Abdul Khaleq Amran, Akram Al-Walidi, Al-Hareth Humaid and Tawfiq Al-Mansouri who are facing a death sentence in Houthi-controlled...

3 minute read Protesters grieve after the death of a political prisoner who had not received treatment in jail, in Sanabis, west of the capital Manama, Bahrain, 17 March 2017, Sayed Baqer AlKamel/NurPhoto via Getty Images An ongoing outbreak of Covid-19 in Bahrain's prisons has underscored the urgent need to release all of the country's political prisoners. This statement was originally published on gc4hr.org on 19 April 2021. While welcoming the release of some prisoners of conscience in Bahrain as Ramadan begins, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) calls on the autho...

'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like

URL copied to clipboard Like millions before him, Manoj migrated from the southwestern Indian state of Kerala to the Gulf in search of work in 2019. He found a job at a construction company in Bahrain that described itself as a “regional leader”. The pay, at 240 dinars (£577) a month, was far more than he could expect to find at home. Last February, as cases of COVID-19 soared in Bahrain, the company stopped paying Manoj and two dozen other employees. When they complained, their employer stopped providing food and accommodation, too. Manoj and his colleagues refused to leave and cont...

16 March 2021 On 16 March 2021, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), in co-operation with its human rights partners Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (AHRDB), Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), will launch a report entitled Patterns of Torture in Bahrain: Perpetrators must Face Justice. Drawing on first-hand witness statements by survivors of torture, the report is a comprehensive study on the specific ways and means by which torture is perpetrated in Bahrain, with a part...