1. Authorities step up offensive against journalists and websites
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2009
   Reporters Without Borders is concerned about freedom of expression in Bahrain. In the past couple of months, two journalists have been charged because of what they wrote and the information ministry has stepped up Internet filtering.
   
2. Bahrain Court Upholds Six Month Sentence Against Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab Over Tweet
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Nabeel Rajaba has been sentenced to prison for a tweet accusing the Bahrain security agencies for incubating ISIS combatants.
3. Bahrain: Well-known photographer held for past week, beaten
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   Reporters Without Borders calls for the release of Ahmed Al-Fardan, an award-winning photojournalist who has been held without charge in Bahrain for the past week.
4. Embassy Row Online
   Resource Type: Website
   Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
5. IFEX deplores three-year jail sentence given to Bahraini member Nabeel Rajab
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   IFEX strongly denounces the three-year prison sentence handed down today to Nabeel Rajab, president of IFEX member Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), for his role in pro-democracy protests.
6. Inside Bahrain After the Crackdown
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   An interview with Nada Alwadi, one of the journalists who reported honestly about the events on the streets of Manama, Bahrain’s capital, and in the rest of the small kingdom. She founded the Bahraini Press Association as a vehicle to fight for the right of journalists to report stories freely.
7. Interview with Maryam Abdulhadi al-Khawaja
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Interview with Bahraini activist Maryam Abdulhadi al-Khawaja.
8. Jail terms upheld for Shiite opposition members, trials of photographers begin
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2011
   Reporters Without Borders condemns a special court’s decision in Bahrain on to uphold the prison sentences that were passed on 14 members of the Shiite opposition.
9. Judicial persecution of Bahraini news providers continues
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the five-year jail sentences that a court passed today on the photographer Hussain Hubail and the cyber-activist Jassim Al-Nuaimi. Seven other activists received similar sentences.
10. National Press Club awardee held for past 18 months in Bahrain
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Call for the release of the internationally-known Bahraini photographer Ahmed Humaidan
11. Nazeeha Saeed - Raising her voice for journalists in Bahrain
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Nazeeha Saeed was detained and tortured for 13 hours while covering the 2011 uprisings in Bahrain along with her colleagues. She is now raising awareness for journalists in Bahrain.
12. Participants at IFEX General Meeting demand action
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Free expression advocates from around the world gathered this week in Oslo, Norway for the General Meeting (GM) of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX).
13. The Repression in Bahrain
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Bahrainis are calling their government's intensified repression of all opposition "the Egyptian strategy", believing that it is modelled on the ruthless campaign by the Egyptian security forces to crush even the smallest signs of dissent.
14. Rights activist arrested over tweet about prison torture
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Reporters Without Borders condemns renewed efforts by the Bahraini authorities to censor online information, including leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab's latest arrest on 2 April and attempts to suppress information about the mistreatment
15. Roads to the Arab Uprisings
    Book review of "The Journey to Tahrir" eds. Sowers and Toensing and "The Arab Revolts" eds. McMurray and Ufheil-Somers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The strength of all the essays in these two collections is that the principal trends the authors analyzed have become critical background to recent events in Egypt and Syria during the summer of 2013, even as the nature of these events continue to shift.
16. RSF alarmed by journalist's arrest on terrorism charges in Bahrain
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is worried by the terrorism charges brought against Mahmood Al Jazeeri, a journalist with the independent daily newspaper Al Wasat, who has been held for the past 11 days.

Experts on Bahrain in the Sources Directory

1. Embassy Row
2. League of Arab States
3. United Nations