ar-lb http://bfhr.org/english/bhimages/bhlogo.gif http://bfhr.org/english/ http://bfhr.org/english/ Bahrain Forum for Human Rights The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights has joined the global network of non-governmental organizations in the Coalition for the International Criminal Court.rnrn http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1099&cid=153 La bande de Gaza est confrontée depuis 576 jours à une guerre d’agression à caractè re génocidaire, subissant des conditions humanitaires et sanitaires catastrophiques. Pour le 64e jour consécutif, les forces d’occupation israéliennes ont renforcé leur blocus, fermant tous les points de passage à l’aide humanitaire, aux provisions essentielles, à la nourriture et aux médicaments, tout en empêchant totalement l’entrée de carburant dans la bande de Gaza. Cette situation a entraîné une détérioration sans précédent des conditions humanitaires et sanitaires, compromettant l’ensemble des services de base et les moyens de subsistance : grave pénurie d’eau, arrêt des stations d’épuration, et effondrement quasi total des services de santé et des hôpitaux.rnrn http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1098&cid=148 The Gaza Strip is facing an ongoing aggression war of genocide for the 576th day, amid dire humanitarian and health conditions. The Israeli occupation forces have continued to tighten their blockade of the Gaza Strip for the 64th day, closing all crossings to various humanitarian aid, essential supplies, food, and medicine, and completely preventing the entry of fuel into the Gaza Strip. This has led to an unprecedented deterioration in the humanitarian and health conditions and undermined all basic services and livelihoods, such as a severe shortage of water supplies, the shutdown of sewage treatment plants, and the near-total collapse of health services and hospitals.rnrn http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1097&cid=148 Salam for Democracy and Human Rights, along with 22 partner organizations, have issued a letter to King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain, calling on the government to amend its 1963 Nationality Law to grant Bahraini mothers the equal right to pass their nationality to their children. This long standing discrimination has significant consequences for Bahraini mothers, their children, and their families, as well as for the broader society of Bahrain.rnrn http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1096&cid=148 The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) condemns the repeated Israeli military targeting of civil defense personnel in Lebanon. The latest was today, October 4, 2024, when Israeli aircraft raided civil defense teams while they were providing relief to the wounded and retrieving victims of the Israeli bombing of the southern suburbs of Beirut last night. http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1095&cid=148 The undersigned human rights organizations consider the mass explosions carried out by the Israeli occupation and apartheid entity on pagers and handheld transceivers on Tuesday and Wednesday (September 17-18, 2024) to be a flagrant violation of the international human rights law and the international humanitarian law and amount to a genocide. http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1094&cid=148 Summonses, arrests and interrogations for the purpose of political intimidation and criminalization of religious speech... And the prison crisis is back in the spotlight. http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1093&cid=148 The testimonies of prisoners of conscience that are still being received from Bahraini prisons show the continuation of some forms of violations, including those related to violating the right to receive the appropriate and necessary medical treatment. In addition, some prisoners were transferred to Building No. (2), which has become known as the “isolation building,” as a form of punishment. http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1092&cid=148 Bahrain’s human rights record shows that the issue of prisoners of conscience formed a basis for the production and development of many violations, including: individual violations, collective violations, and violations affecting the victim’s relatives. http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1091&cid=153 The Bahraini authorities continue to criminalize freedom of opinion and expression and hold accountable those who exercise this right, as if it were a felony or misdemeanor that requires alerting interrogation agencies. Meanwhile, these same authorities still do not see any problem in the practices of the security services, who commit violations, misdemeanors, and sometimes even felonies against peaceful citizens and prisoners of conscience. So, these crimes are tolerated and their perpetrators go unpunished. http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1090&cid=153 On April 8, 2024, the Bahraini authorities released hundreds of political detainees. The number of political detainees had been more than 1,300 in Bahraini prisons, and after the releases, it became more than 560 detainees. http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1089&cid=153 The full speech of Ghina Rebai, a researcher at the BFHR, in the virtual press conference that was organized by the Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) on Saturday May 11 2024 http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1088&cid=153 The full speech of Zainab Khamis - Head of the Monitoring and Documentation Committee of the Bahrain Human Rights Society, in the virtual press conference that was organized by the Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR), on Saturday May 11 2024. http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1087&cid=153 The full speech by Ibtisam Al-Sayegh in the virtual press conference that was organized by the Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) on Saturday May 11 2024 http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1086&cid=153 The speech of Devin Kenney, a researcher at Amnesty International in the virtual press conference organized by The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) on Saturday May 11 2024 http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1085&cid=153 The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) organized a virtual press conference on Saturday May 11 2024, with the participation of Devin Kenney, researcher at Amnesty International (AI), Zainab Khamis, head of the Monitoring and Documentation Committee at the Bahrain Human Rights Society (BHRS), Ibtisam Al-Saegh, head of monitoring and documentation at SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights (SALAM DHR), and Ghina Rebai, researcher at the BFHR. The conference was about the issue of prisoners of conscience in Bahrain and was hosted by Bahraini journalist, Murtada Al-Talbi. http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1084&cid=153 For the second time, the Ministry of Social Development rejected the nomination of the former President of the Bahrain Human Rights Society, Mr. Abdul Jalil Yousef, for membership in the Board of Directors (2024-2025). http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1083&cid=148 The peaceful assemblies in American Universities and legitimate exercise of the right to freedom of expression and the students' calls for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, an end to US military assistance for Israel and university divestment from arms suppliers, have faced harsh crackdowns including mass suspensions, evictions from university housing, and arrests of students, professors, legal observers, and journalists covering these events. http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1082&cid=148 The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) organized a webinar on Friday, April 19, 2024, in which its chairman Baqir Darwish along with chairman of Salam for Democracy & Human Rights Organization, Jawad Fairouz have discussed the latest release of a group of political detainees.  The panel was moderated by BFHR’s researcher Ghina Rabai. http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1081&cid=153 In parallel with the “Release Bahrain Prisoners” cyber campaign, the Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) has organized a webinar on its Instagram platform (Saturday evening, April 27, 2024) with the participation of Activist Ali Muhanna;  Former member of the Al-Wefaq Shura Council, Youssef Rabie;  The spokesman for the Bahrain’s Political Prisoners’ Affairs Committee, Jaafar Yahya.  The webinar has been moderated by journalist Sondoss Al Asaad. http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1080&cid=153 The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) organized a virtual conference titled “The Human Rights Position on Developments in Bahraini affairs,” on April 19, 2024. The conference coincided with the recent developments in the human rights situation in Bahrain, namely the release of a large number of prisoners of conscience, while there are still more than 500 prisoners of conscience who have not been released. http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1079&cid=153 The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights has joined the Global Alliance to End Statelessness http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1078&cid=152 On Monday, December 11, 2023, the Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) has organized a virtual symposium under the title “International Human Rights Day,” moderated by journalist Hawraa Yassin, who has pointed out that it is ironic that this day coincides with the establishment of the regime that pioneers violating human rights as it continues today to shed blood of the Palestinians amid the silence of Islamic regimes, which in turn violate the basic rights standards and resort to torture and ill-treatment. http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1077&cid=153 While we strongly condemn the crimes of the Israeli occupation entity that have been ongoing for 46 days – including which occurred today in southern #Lebanon and resulted in the killing of 2 journalists from Al-Mayadeen Channel (Farah Omar - Rabei Al-Maamari) and a civilian in hostile bombing on the Tayr Harfa-Al-Jibbayn triangle, in addition to the killing of a Lebanese citizen (Laeqa Sarhan, 80 years old) as a result of targeting her home in the town of Kfarkela – we affirm that the killing of journalists by the Israeli occupation forces is deliberate and systematic targeting. In fact, the latter has sought, since the beginning of its heinous violations in Gaza, to kill journalists by systematically targeting them and their workplaces in an effort to impose a broad media blackout on the entire sector. http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1076&cid=148 With the participation of human rights activists and civil society organizations from several countries, Insan Organisation for Rights & Liberties has organized an international webinar to discuss the humanitarian situation in Gaza, in light of the continued aggression against besieged Gaza and the worsening humanitarian and rights crisis. http://bfhr.org/english/article.php?id=1075&cid=148