TWO international human rights organisations have condemned charges filed against women’s rights activist Ghada Jamsheer. Ms Jamsheer, who heads the Women’s Petition Committee says she will go to jail rather than be silenced. Human Rights Watch and the Arab Programme for Human Rights Activists (APHRA) have each called for all charges against her to be …
A leading human rights organisation is urging the Bahraini government to drop the charges against a woman’s rights activist set to be tried on Saturday for criticisng family court judges. Ghada Jamsheer faces up to 15 years in prison for three incidents of alleged “slander” over her criticism of how women are treated by the …
There are big discussions doing the rounds in the papers this week regarding the uncodified nature of the Personal Status Law spread primarily by two national polls; one sponsored by the Supreme Council for Women executed by the Bahrain Centre for Studies and Research while the other more arbitrary by Al-Wasat using SMS responses to …