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Amnesty International designates Cuban graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado Machado as a prisoner of conscience.
2015-09-29

A 16-year-old child is shot dead at close range in Al-Daih, a village west of Manama, Bahrain.
2013-02-14

The government of Bahrain defends its decision to impose a ban on all public protests and demonstrations, following calls from Amnesty International to lift the ban immediately as it breaches the rights to free speech and assembly.
2012-10-31

A court in Bahrain upholds the jail sentences of nine medics convicted for their role in the country's uprising.
2012-10-1

Bahrain's public prosecution charges seven police officers with torturing Shia medics to obtain confessions during the ongoing Bahraini uprising.
2012-09-18

A court in Bahrain upholds the sentences of Arab Spring opposition figures condemned for plotting to overthrow the Western-allied government. Eight of the twenty opponents are confirmed imprisoned for life.
2012-09-4

Bahraini security forces kill a 16-year-old boy during rioting in the city of Muharraq.
2012-08-18

Bahraini uprising: The government of Bahrain announces it will pay US$2.6 million to the relatives of 17 people who died in the revolt against the government.
2012-06-26

The United States resumes shipping armaments to Bahrain, after a pause that coincided with the ongoing popular uprising against the Bahraini regime.
2012-05-12

Mordechai Vanunu, who spoke about Israel's nuclear ambitions to "The Sunday Times" in 1986 and was referred to as a "prisoner of conscience" by Amnesty International after Israel imprisoned him for that action, is released from prison again after serving three months for meeting foreigners, including his Norwegian girlfriend, in 2007. He requests that he be allowed to leave Israel.
2010-08-8