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Abdollahian: Iran and Bahrain Consider Returning Relations to Normalcy
2024-05-13
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian stated that "Iran and Bahrain are contemplating further steps and the return of relations to their normal state."
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Bahrain: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
2024-05-08
The Bahraini government has finally spoken its last word, with no further releases imminent. Everything that happened in the penultimate session of the House of Representatives was merely an event for expressing opinions and testing the waters, nothing more, as all the cards of power remain in the hands of the king.
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Bahraini Regime Forces Suppress Open Sit-in Held by Political Prisoners' Families outside Jaw Prison
2024-05-02
Bahraini forces cracked down on an open-ended sit-in initiated by the families of political prisoners in front of the Jaw Central Prison on Thursday, May 2, 2024, demanding the immediate release of all political prisoners.
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Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim: Emptying Prisons Would Add Credibility to Corrective Step
2024-04-27
Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim hopes that the release of a number of political prisoners will be a promising step toward a serious, accelerated, and comprehensive corrective path to resolve the existing problems in the political relationship between the authorities and the Bahraini people.
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Ibrahim Serhan: Released Political Prisoners Not Obligated to Pay Any Fine Under Terms of the Royal Pardon
2024-04-26
Ibrahim Serhan, legal advisor to the "Salam for Democracy and Human Rights" organization, called on political prisoners released under the recent royal pardon not to pay any fine as that is not lawful.
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Recent Releases in Bahrain: Something Has Changed
2024-04-20
Since the release of over 1,500 prisoners, about half of whom are political prisoners, as part of the largest royal amnesty of its kind since the general amnesty in 2001, Bahrain has been experiencing a mixture of joy and political instability simultaneously.