Special Investigation Unit said the appeals court fined a policeman 100 BD for beating detainee in Jaw Prison.

BCHR member said families of Dry Dock Prison detainees confirmed the detainees have been exposed to abuse.

Seventeen detainees escaped from prison in Bahrain, and government warned citizens against giving them shelter...

Bahrain's Ministry of Interior announced that it foiled an attempt to smuggle 8 political ...

Member of Bahrain Center for Human Rights Safaa Al-Kahwaja said that the university student Jaafar Mohammad Awal (22 years) faces unknown destiny. Jaafar was arrested from his home in the Island of Sitra without legal permission and was taken to the Criminal Investigation Department.

Bahraini Interior Ministry said number of detainees held at preventive detention centre managed...

Lawyer said Bahraini court rejected request to allow detainee Ahmad Khodair to attend his mother's funeral procession.

Prisoners and Detainees Rights Commission said number of prisoners arrested over (politically-motivated) riot charges reached about 1,000.

Inmates held in Jaw Central Prison’s Block 10 went on a hunger strike in protest of the maltreatment.

The Freedoms and Human Rights Department at Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society expressed its concern, regarding the recurrent news it has been receiving from Jaw Central Prison since April 2016 about overcrowding issues in the prison, particularly block 4.

Sources close to prisoners held at Bahrain's Jaw Central Prison said that the prison's administration decided to tie up the hands and feet of all prisoners sentenced to 10-year prison terms or more while receiving treatment in hospitals.

Detainees at Dry Dock Prison said that the prison’s administration is avoiding to meet their demands that they had asked for, following a one-month hunger strike.

Member of Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Hussain Radhi, said a court sentenced Laila Mansour Marzooq, from Bani Jamra, to 3 months in prison for standing outside a police station demanding the release of her son.

Member of the European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights (EBOHR), Fatima Al-Halwachi, said that a Bahraini court sentenced her detained father and member of Amal Society Khalil Al-Halwachi to one month in prison over charges of insulting a police officer, against whom Dry Dock prisoners have raised complaints.

The Bahraini authorities released on Monday (April 18, 2016) photographer Ahmed Al-Fardan after serving a 3-month jail term over taking part in an assembly.

Twenty-five human rights activists from the Middle East and North Africa sent an open letter to the US President Barack Obama, who will meet with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States on April 21 in the Saudi capital Riyadh.

There are reports that state that the pursued Bahraini youth, Ali Abdulghani, from the area of Shahrekan was admitted to the military hospital. Abdulghani was injured while attempting to flee from police officers on Thursday (March 31, 2016).

The detainees held at Dry Dock Prison said that the prison administration evaded the promises it made to have the prisoners end their hunger strike which has lasted for 26 days.

Member of Bahrain's Special Investigation Unit (SIU), Mohammad Khaled Al-Hazaa, stated that the Second Minor Criminal Court acquitted a police officer of the charge of assaulting the bodily integrity of a prisoner on Thursday (March 17, 2016).

The Bahraini authorities released one of the senior figures of the Islamic Action Society (Amal), Sheikh Jassim Al-Damestani after serving five years in prison.