Campaign against Arms Trade (CAAT) called to stage a protest against participation of Bahrain in Royal Windsor Horse Race, to be held on May 12, due to Bahrain black human rights record.

The Bahraini authorities renewed on Wednesday (March 28, 201) the detention of Zainab Maki for 15 days pending investigation.

Human Rights Watch said that Bahrain’s interior minister has threatened to crackdown on dissidents and activists who criticize the government online.

Bahraini Court of Appeal upheld a ruling sentencing photographer Sayed Ahmed Al-Mousawi to ten years in prison, also stripping him of his citizenship.

Two political detainees started a hunger strike against maltreatment, activists’ families said.

Bahraini detainee Hajer Mansoor, 49, was admitted to hospital Thursday, her family said, three days after launching her second hunger strike behind bars to protest the treatment of prisoners, AFP reported.

Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) said that cassation and appeals courts upheld 10 death sentences last February, stressing that it documented 1105 serious human rights violations.

The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) said that it held a workshop for members of the National Security Agency about torture.

The UN High Commissioner for human rights website disclosed a letter sent by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment to the Bahraini government about the torture Ali Mohamed Hakeem Al-Arab, who was sentenced to death last January, was subjected to.

Deputy head of the European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights (EBOHR) Fatima Al-Halwachi said that detained activist Khalil Al-Halwachi (who is sentenced to 10 years in prison) suffers from clot symptoms.

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), said in a joint statement that the verdict issued against prominent human rights defender Nabeel Rajab is “surrealistic”, and that it came after a trial that was by itself a mockery of justice.

The Bahraini Embassy in London said the two cases in which Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab was sentenced to prison “do not relate to political views or political expression”.

The United States Mission to the United Nations said that Washington is disappointed by Bahrain's decision to sentence human rights activist Nabeel Rajab.

Government of Germany said it’s deeply concerned about sentencing of Bahrain human rights activist Nabeel Rajab, appealing to Bahrain “to fulfill its obligations to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms.”

European Union called for release of Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab, commenting on new Bahraini court ruling sentencing him to additional five five years in prison.

Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission called to attend a briefing on the human rights situation in Bahrain on the seventh anniversary of its pro-democracy uprising that erupted on February 14, 2011.

Marking seventh anniversary of the February 14, 2011 movement, Bahrain's Al-Wefaq Society said they managed as Bahrainis to “achieve 98.4% with our strong will, and we still have the same energy to carry on,” referring to the anniversary of the vote on the National Action Charter on February 14, 2001.

Stripped of his Bahraini citizenship and living in London exile, rights activist Sayed Ahmed Al-Wadaei says he speaks for the hundreds of opposition figures made voiceless by imprisonment back home.

An imprisoned activist in Bahrain has been denied adequate medical care and is being held with extremists, putting his life at risk, a human rights group said Thursday.

International rights groups said Thursday they fear for the health behind bars of Bahrain's most high-profile activist, Nabeel Rajab, condemning the Gulf state over its seven-year crackdown on dissent.