Bahrain has announced a two-day public holiday in observance of Ashura, giving residents a long weekend to mark the ...

Voices Bahrain is holding my family hostage – and the UK is abetting them. This is the third Christmas members of my family have spent in Bahranian prison cells.

In 2013, he set up the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, which has publicly accused senior members of Bahrain’s royal family of involvement in serious human rights abuses, including ...

The family of a jailed Bahrain activist says he has resumed a hunger strike NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Maryam al-Khawaja, who like her father, is a Bahraini human rights activist.

The history of natural pearls is so intertwined with the Arabian Gulf, it is almost impossible to think of one without the other. For millennia, these waters were the world’s most prolific source of ...

The family was among those who appealed to Pope Francis ahead of his visit last week to Bahrain to speak against capital punishment, which he did while stressing human rights.

The family of a Bahraini activist on death row was allowed physical contact with Mohammed Ramadhan for the first time in years on a prison visit this week, his wife said, ...