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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]
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