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CATEGORY: Middle East and North Africa
International NGOs call on Bahrain to release Dr Abduljalil al-Singace
Bahraini prisoner of conscience Dr Abduljalil al-Singace today hits a milestone 160 days of hunger strike as rights organisations appeal for his...
Release prisoner of conscience Dr Abduljalil al-Singace as hunger strike reaches 160th day
Forty-one international NGOs call on the Bahraini authorities to release Dr Abduljalil al-Singace and all prisoners of conscience in Bahrain.
27 Aug: Protest to support jailed Bahraini blogger and academic
Join us to mark the 160th day of Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace’s hunger strike
Bahrain: Magazine sent to jailed academic and blogger
Editor Rachael Jolley mailed the latest copy of Index on Censorship magazine Fired, threatened, imprisoned… is academic freedom being eroded? to jailed Bahraini academic and blogger
#SingaceHungerStrike: Rights groups denounce Bahrain’s ongoing detention of academic
The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), English PEN and Index on Censorship gathered outside the Bahrain Embassy in London on Wednesday 29 July 2015 to protest the ongoing detention of Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace.
Moroccan authorities commit to giving satirist identity documents
Journalist Ali Lmrabet had been holding a hunger strike in front of the UN’s Geneva offices since 24 June because of Moroccan authorities’ refusals to renew his identity documents
Open letter to the King of Morocco in support of Ali Lmrabet
Dozens of internationally recognised journalists, free expression activists and writers have signed a letter supporting Ali Lmrabet, a Moroccan journalist who is on hunger strike in Geneva
“He is denied his right to an identity”: why a Moroccan satirist is on hunger strike
Ali Lmrabet is protesting what he sees as the latest bid from his country Morocco to stop him from doing his job
Bahraini king pardons rights campaigner Nabeel Rajab
Index welcomes King Hamad’s pardoning of human rights defender Nabeel Rajab, but calls for the release of all political prisoners in Bahrain
Bahrain: Calls for release of Nabeel Rajab on global day of solidarity
The Bahraini human rights defender was once again arrested in October 2014 in connection with one of his tweets
Bahrain: Free Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace
Nine Bahraini and international NGOs and the University College Union launched a campaign this week marking the 100th day of detained human rights defender Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace’s hunger strike
