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Bahrain

April 2024

  • two Arab men embracing joyfully

    Bahrain’s king takes activists by surprise with pardon for at least 1,500 prisoners

    Released detainees include some jailed for political reasons and is UK ally’s biggest amnesty since Arab spring

February 2024

  • Bob Stewart

    MP Bob Stewart wins appeal against racial abuse conviction

  • Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei in a suit and tie

    UK home secretary apologises over unlawful detention of Bahraini activist

January 2024

  • HMS Bangor moored by a dock

    Navy investigates collision between two British warships off Bahrain

    Footage appears to show HMS Chiddingfold reversing into HMS Bangor

November 2023

  • Bob Stewart

    MP Bob Stewart to stand down after racial abuse conviction

  • Ayman Safadi gestures as he addresses an audience at the summit

    Arab forces will not go to Gaza, says Jordanian minister in rebuke of Israel

October 2023

  • A protester holds up a doll as several thousand demonstrators show their support for Palestine by marching through Avenue Habib Bourguiba and continuing their demonstration in front of the French embassy in Tunis, Tunisia

    Angry protests flare up across Middle East after Gaza hospital blast

  • The Tree of Life in Bahrain<br>The Tree of Life in the desert of Bahrain, Middle East

    Eight of the world’s most amazing trees – from the Major Oak to the Lone Cypress

September 2023

  • Maryam al-Khawaja on the phone at Heathrow airport

    Bahraini human rights defender denied travel to kingdom to visit jailed father

    Maryam al-Khawaja fears her father, the political prisoner Abdulhadi al-Khawajar, will die soon after being denied medical treatment

August 2023

  • Gerry Grimstone

    Former minister Gerry Grimstone under fire over undeclared UAE meetings

  • A protester holds a picture of the human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja in front of riot police

    At least 500 Bahraini prisoners on hunger strike over conditions

March 2023

  • Maryam al-Khawaja, daughter of jailed human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, outside court in Manama, during her 2014 trial over charges of assaulting police.

    Rights and freedom
    Daughter of Danish-Bahraini rights activist offers to take his place in prison

    Maryam al-Khawaja says she fears her father Abdulhadi’s health is deteriorating in prison and condemns Denmark for inaction

February 2023

  • Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa

    UK accused of ‘dangerous whitewash’ over Bahrain human rights abuses

    Humanitarian groups urge foreign secretary to issue correction to a recent report, amid fears it could provide cover for repression in the Gulf state

December 2022

  • Bob Stewart was involved in a confrontation outside a reception hosted by the Bahraini embassy.

    Met to investigate Tory MP Bob Stewart over alleged racial abuse

  • The director of the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy confronts Stewart outside a reception hosted by the Bahraini embassy

    ‘Go back to Bahrain’, Tory MP Bob Stewart tells human rights activist – video

  • Bob Stewart outside a reception hosted by the Bahraini embassy.

    Human rights activist complains to Tory party after MP tells him to ‘go back to Bahrain’

  • Tomáš Zdechovský chairs the European parliament’s Bahrain friendship group

    Revealed: MEP in prisoner resolution row made undeclared Bahrain visit

  • Britain’s new tough talk is a sham. Why would dictators ‘fear’ ministers who befriend them?

    Dan Dolan
  • No safe haven? The Bahraini dissident still menaced after gaining UK asylum

November 2022

  • Bahraini elections

    Bahrain holds election without opposition candidates

    Rights groups say whatever the outcome of election, no real change will follow despite record number of female candidates
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