Excerpt taken from the Weekly Wire Publication from the Project on Middle East Democracy
Concern about Freedom of Expression in Bahrain: On Thursday, 46 human rights groups, including Freedom House and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, sent a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights expressing "grave concern" about abusive campaigns carried out by Bahraini officials to harass, prosecute, and imprison journalists and political activists. To correct this pattern of abuse, the NGOs implored the UN to apply pressure on Bahrain's government to open up space for all NGOs to operate legally without fear of repercussions and to lift censorship restrictions on both websites and independent journalists and activists.
The full letter can be viewed here.
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