Bahrain

  • Joint Statement

    Open Letter to the Government of Bahrain: Respect the Rights of Al-Khawaja Family

    14 Apr 2012

    Maryam Al-Khawaja, a 24 year old woman human rights defender from Bahrain, has been doing extensive work on documenting human rights violations prior to and during the February 14th uprising in Bahrain. She is the head of international relations and advocacy officer at the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and left Bahrain in March 2011 to testify about violations in Bahrain. She has not been able to go back to Bahrain since for the fear of detention and torture.

  • Blog Post

    My Father is Dying

    5 Apr 2012

    This is the thought constantly running through my head.

    As a human rights defender I have learned to numb my emotions and continue working. I have been working on covering human rights violations in Bahrain for more than two years now, documenting all the arbitrary arrests, systematic torture, rapes, kidnappings, extra-judicial killings; the list goes on.