Bahrain

Bahrain: Request for support to free imprisoned human rights defender Dr Abduljalil AlSingace, on hunger strike since July 2021

Scholars at Risk joined 26 human rights organizations in sending the below letter to US, UK, German, and EU governments to raise Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace’s case with Bahraini authorities. Dr. Al-Singace’s health has severely worsened as he quickly approaches the

Free Dr. Abdul Jalil Al-Singace on 100th day of hunger strike

Today marks Dr. Abdul Jalil Al-Singace’s 100th day on a hunger strike in Jau Prison, Bahrain. For the past ten years, Dr. Al-Singace has been serving a life sentence for his nonviolent participation in a pro-democracy protest in 2011. Dr.

Release and ensure rights of wrongfully convicted scholar-activist Khalil Al-Halwachi

Today, a coalition of five human rights organizations expressed grave concern over the lack of due process rights and inhumane treatment of Khalil Al-Halwachi, a Bahraini scholar of engineering and an activist, who has been convicted and sentenced to ten