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Bahrain Centre for Human Rights
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| Founded | May 2002 by a group of activists in Bahrain |
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| Dissolved | September 2004 |
| Type | Non-profit NGO |
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| Services | Protecting human rights |
| Fields | Media attention, non-violence, research, lobbying |
Key people | Nabeel Rajab (President) Abdulhadi Alkhawaja (former president) Maryam Alkhawaja (Head of the Foreign Relations Office) |
| Website | www.bahrainrights.org |
The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR; Arabic: مركز البحرين لحقوق الإنسان, romanized: Markaz al-Baḥrayn li-Ḥuqūq al-Insān) was a Bahraini non-profit non-governmental organisation which works to promote human rights in Bahrain,[1] which was founded by a number of Bahraini activists in June 2002. The centre was given a dissolution order after its former president Abdulhadi Al Khawaja was arrested in September 2004 a day after criticizing the country's Prime Minister, Khalifah ibn Sulman Al Khalifah at a seminar in which he blamed the Prime Minister for the failure of widespread economic development for all citizens.[2][3] The BCHR is still banned by the government, but has remained very active.[4]
In 2013 the organisation was awarded the Rafto Prize for its work.[5]
- ^ Bahrain Centre for Human Rights website Archived 21 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 17 May 2011
- ^ Staff writer (28 September 2004). "Bahrain: Activist Jailed After Criticizing Prime Minister". Human Rights Watch. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
- ^ "Bahrain: Rights Center Closed as Crackdown Expands", Human rights watch, 29 September 2004. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
BCHR1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Rafto Prize press release (Norwegian) Archived 29 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine
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