Shia Rights Watch Defending Justice and Rights

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — During more than two months in a Bahrain prison, the routine rarely varied: Alleged abuses by day such as beatings with a rubber hose, and then being blindfolded and dragged into a corridor at night to lie on cold tiles with others arrested in the …

The martyrdom of 30-year-old protester Majid Ahmed Mohammed brings to 38 the number of those martyred since February, when Bahrain‘s Shia — inspired by uprisings elsewhere in the Middle East — started a campaign to end the Sunni minority’s hold on power. Four people have martyred in custody. Riot police …

PARIS, France: McClatchy Newspapers reported that Bahraini government demolished or seriously damaged 43 Shiite Muslim mosques or religious structures during its crackdown on anti-government demonstrations, according to an official tally compiled by the state-supported endowment that oversees Shiite sacred buildings. Twenty-eight mosques were completely leveled, of which 10 had been …

One Bahraini’s story Fatima Khawaji who is a Bahraini Citizen, shares her heart braking story with the world. After returning from one of the recent protests against the monarchy kingdom of Bahrain, dozens of men who were heavily armed and she noticed were Saudi forces joined by Bahraini forces, forcefully …

A leading Bahraini human rights activist, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, is standing trial in a military court, his daughter Zainab believes. She said he told her the date, time and place of the trial, but when family members came to the court officials denied any knowledge of the case. Mr Khawaja had …

A Bahraini human rights campaigner says political activists detained by the Manama regime undergo torture in the prisons of the small Persian Gulf kingdom. In an interview with Press TV, Maryam al-Khawaja of Bahrain‘s human rights center called on the Bahraini authorities to stop their crackdown on anti-government protesters and …

Brother of the martyr prevents journalists and photographers from taking pictures of the martyr in washing place of the cemetery. Even martyr’s wife was prevented from having farewell with her husband. It is seems that the martyr’s family had received threats from the Ministry of Interior in the case of …

Salmanyah Hospital officials said the three martyred men, with ages 23, 62 and unknown,  had been shot at close range with buck shot, a projectile containing hundreds of ball bearings. Hospital officials said more than 100 people had been injured. No official confirmation of the dead or wounded was immediately …

A wave of bombings in June on Shi’ite pilgrims and religious sites has killed more than 150 Shia. On Monday June 19, 2012 , an anti-Shia exploded himself in a funeral killing 15 Shia and wounding more than 40 Shia. The number of Shia killed in the month of June …

Shortly after the major car bomb in June 13,2012 that killed 103 Shia in Baghdad, another explosion took Shia lives again. On Saturday June 16, 2012 Anti-Shia took 34 Shia life. The first attack was carried out on a highway at about 12:15 p.m. local time (0915 GMT) on Saturday, …