The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) said on Monday (January 30, 2017) that the injury of the 18-year-old Mostafa Hamdan was caused during a shootout between two groups of masked men and hurling stones early in the morning on January 26.

Four Bahraini human rights organizations said in a joint statement “No representatives from the National Institutions for Human Rights that supported the execution sentence against three Bahraini youths (Sami Mushaima, Abbas Al-Samie and Ali Al-Singace) attended any of the execution victims’ court sessions that lacked guarantees for fair trial. Besides, the NIHR is supposed to follow the torture complaints submitted by the victims.”

Bahrain’s National Institute for Human Rights (NIHR) supported the execution of the 3 Bahraini activists, confirming that the “Kingdom of Bahrain has not violated any of its international legal obligations”.

The Al-Wasat Newspaper said in today's issue that the 2016 report of National Institute for Human Rights did not refer to the security siege imposed on Diraz since 6 months.

Human rights sources say employee at National Institute for Human Rights was absent for 7 months and paid over 17,000 dinars in salary form despite his absence.

Lawyer Balqees Al-Manami is not demanding the impossible. All she is asking for is a passport for her infant son to leave the country and reunite with her husband.

Bahraini government agreed to pass decree to dissolve Information Affairs Authority, and assign all its missions, specialties, and employees to Ministry of Information Affairs.

Complaints, Monitoring and Follow-up Committee of National Institution for Human Rights said it received 99 complaints since January 2016 to date.

NIHR Vice President received Deputy Director of Policy and Research at USCIRF Dwight Bashir and his accompanying delegation.

Bahrain's National Institution for Human Rights expressed concern over increase of travel bans enforced on citizens.

The President of the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) Abdulaziz Abul said that publishing photos of suspects...

President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), Nabeel Rajab, announced that activist Rayhana Al-Mosawi documented on Sunday (May 8, 2016) at the National Institution for Human Rights the torture she was subjected to during her interrogation three years ago.

Bahrain Mirror: A report issued by the State Audit and Administrative Control Bureau disclosed that the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) has cut 41,844 BD from its employees’ salaries without transferring them to the Public Authority for Social Insurance and instead used the money to finance the operating expenses of the year.

Bahrain Mirror: The complaints, monitoring and follow-up committee of the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) said it discussed in its fifth meeting the complaint filed by some members of the medical cadre who were dismissed following the 2011 events in Bahrain.

Bahrain Mirror: Prominent Bahraini human rights activist, Nabeel Rajab, criticized the National Institution of Human Rights, which is appointed by a royal decree, considering that “it didn’t prove its worth in changing and improving the human rights situation in Bahrain.”