Via Bahrain Watch Bahraini NGOS call on UK Home Office to urgently halt deportation of Isa Al-Aali to Bahrain Isa Haidar Al-Aali, 19 years old has been detained by UK immigration authorities for over three months. Isa’s application for asylum has been refused twice and a deportation order was issued last week for immediate deportation…
By David Binns (UCU London Retired Members branch) The Formula 1 Grand Prix gets under way once more on Friday 4th April. As in other recent years, there will be protests opposing the staging of the race in Bahrain, a small country afflicted with a profoundly undemocratic monarchical regime where workers rights to organise are…
Via Bahrain Center for Human Rights Friday, February 14th, marked the third anniversary of the pro-democracy protests in Bahrain, and hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets over the weekend to demand their right to freedom and democracy. The government responded with a heavy use of teargas and the use of shotguns loaded…
via Bahrainwatch, 7 January 2014 International Campaign Led By NGOs Succeeds in Pressuring Korean Regulator To Cancel Shipment Advocacy group Bahrain Watch announced today that the #StopTheShipment campaign it launched two months ago to prevent a massive shipment of tear gas to Bahrain, has achieved a major milestone. The Financial Times reported today that South…
Prominent opposition leaders, who were jailed in the crackdown which followed Bahrain’s uprising in 2011, are being denied medical treatment for their conditions. They are among a group of opposition activists who received harsh jail sentences as the Bahraini authorities sought to crush resistance to the repression. Abduljalil Al-Singace (top right), a former professor of Mechanical…
On 31 October activists from Korean trade unions, peace campaigns and human rights groups protested against the export of tear gas to Bahrain in response to the Stop the Shipment campaign. Read the press release below and scroll to the end for a video of the protest action. No more tears of Bahrain people caused…
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) demanded that the Korean government refuse to grant an export license for a huge shipment of tear gas to Bahrain. Campaigners from BahrainWatch have exposed how the Bahrain authorities are seeking to replenish their supplies of tear gas after the massive wave of repression this summer against opposition…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – From BahrainWatch Go to http://stoptheshipment.org/ to take action now Contact: bill@bahrainwatch.org Twitter: @bhwatch October 16, 2013 LEAKED DOCUMENT SHOWS MASSIVE NEW TEAR GAS SHIPMENT PLANNED FOR BAHRAIN Bahrain Government Apparently Intends to Stockpile More Tear Gas Canisters than People in Country [Manama] Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior is planning to import 1.6…
Nurses and midwives in New South Wales, Australia, have been taking action in solidarity with Bahraini colleagues who were jailed in the wake of the brutal crackdown on the 2011 popular uprising. At the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association annual conference held last week, 61 branches signed up to the Bahrain Solidarity Campaign – largely…
A protest movement inspired by Egypt’s “Rebel” campaign brought protesters onto the streets of Bahrain in the largest demonstrations for months on 14 August. The Bahraini authorities have responded harshly – arresting and detaining critics and rushing through vague new laws against “terrorism” in order to justify a crackdown. The report below is from the…
MENA Solidarity Network 