#Bahrain: There are a total 362 political prisoners currently serving their sentences in Jau Prison. Breakdown by building: 12 - Building 1 (Death row inmates) 93 - Building 3 95 - Building 2 77 - Building 5 14 - Building 4 19 - Building 12 10 - Building 14 - Political ‘icons’

#Bahrain: Investigations by BIRD into a series of recent targeting of Bahrainis attending Sheikh Ali Salman’s ‘majlis’ reveal an intimidation campaign by the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID). Sheikh Ali Salman is the leader of the dissolved Bahraini opposition party

Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace has refused his daily medical checkups since Monday (21 April) in protest of the Bahraini authorities’ delays in refilling his medications. He remains on a solid food hunger strike and intends to stop taking salts if Ministry of Interior fails to provide his

Another powerful intervention by Paul Scriven🔶️🇺🇦 asking the UK Government: "Over £42 million of UK government spending from 2020 on the Gulf Strategy Fund has failed to demonstrably improve many of the human rights abuses detailed by the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy

#Bahrain: Families of political prisoners in Jau Prison issued an urgent statement calling for the release of their loved ones today, 24 June 2025: "In light of the escalating security situation and the heightened state of emergency in Bahrain, we — the families of political

#Bahrain 🇧🇭 Today, Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace marks 4 years on a solid-food hunger strike protesting the confiscation of his manuscript. BIRD highlights medical neglect and prolonged solitary confinement, urging his immediate release. #FreeAlSingace buff.ly/oHVSxk0

Important BIRD statement: "We are gravely concerned about Bahraini human rights defender and respected academic Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace, 63, who is serving a life sentence... solely for exercising his rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly in Bahrain."

#Bahrain must free Bahraini human rights defender and respected academic Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace. Today marks 4 years since he has been on a solid food hunger strike to protest the arbitrary confiscation of his research by Bahraini authorities. He has spent over 14 years

Protests broke out in Jau Prison, where inmates in Buildings 12 and 5 — which houses the majority of political prisoners — left their wards and moved toward other buildings yesterday. The protest followed broken promises of release, and with the continued failure to honour