EU Parliament adopted on Thursday three resolutions taking stock of the human rights situation in Bahrain. In a press release, the European Parliament tackled the cases of death row inmates and human rights defenders “MEPs are deeply concerned that ten years after the Bahraini ‘Arab Spring’ uprising, in 2011, the ...
Human rights groups said Bahrain’s police forces have beaten children they arrested on the anniversary of the 2011 pro-democracy uprising, threatening them with rape and electric shocks. Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the London-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) said in a joint statement on Wednesday that Bahraini ...