The foreign ministers of the GCC, the alliance between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are scheduled to hold a meeting in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah on Saturday to discuss prepared by a special committee set up to monitor the implementation of an accord signed in Riyadh in April.

Prominent human rights defender and founder of the Bahrain Centre for Human rights (BCHR) and the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR), Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, has declared an open hunger strike “in protest against the continuation of arbitrary arrest and detention.” In a statement made to members of his immediate family during a visit today, Mr. AlKhawaja declared that he would refuse all food and liquids with the exception of water. He also informed his family that due to the drugging, Read more [...]

Al Wefaq National Islamic Society expressed deep concern over reports of detainees going on hunger strike to protest ill-treatment and poor conditions in the Dry Dock prison. The situation of tens of detainees in the prison is worrying, reports from inside the prison said the prison’s clinic has become overcrowded after many of the hunger-strikers fell unconscious and left without treatment, some in worrying conditions.Al Wefaq is gravely concerned about reports of detainees being threatened Read more [...]