May 22, 2013
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The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights is a Bahraini non-profit non-governmental organisation which works to promote human rights in Bahrain, 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 . The BCHR is still banned by the government, but has remained very active.
(via Freebase)
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![Thousands rally behind dying 'godfather of human rights' in Bahrain [Al-Alam, Iran]](/images/image_cache/base-2880000/2880824/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=5ff7a15035e2bc1f104cb87e61ad40ee "An anti-government protester with a poster of human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja walks towards the main highway of Budaiya, west of Manama, March 26, 2012: REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed")
![Detained Bahraini activists begin third day of hunger strike [Press TV, Iran]](/images/image_cache/base-346000/346594/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=bc84bbcd897735369307237b41eeffed)
![Bahrainis mark day of loyalty to the symbols of the revolution [Al-Alam, Iran]](/images/image_cache/base-313000/313656/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=e3f0635c2a07813cfa0f72c6e589c853)
![Bahraini police show no mercy to protestors mourning boy's death [Al-Alam, Iran]](/images/image_cache/base-312000/312250/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=2d6483b733653f3196ab66fe380fdb54)
![Violence against Bahraini protestors rages on [Press TV, Iran]](/images/image_cache/base-311000/311985/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=7f16880e0aa4be9e1cd23a6be7e0a6c4)
![Tear gas kills another Bahraini protestor [Press TV, Iran]](/images/image_cache/base-311000/311958/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=b8bd8676ec27715d63309a3148d64f58)
![Bahraini opposition rejects the king's speech [Al-Alam, Iran]](/images/image_cache/base-311000/311674/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=02e7cd9fb954cb5929b531ca7ac79341)
![Additional opposition groups to boycott Bahrain's parliamentary elections [Al-Alam, Iran]](/images/image_cache/base-311000/311542/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=a36df86279ee29024a45712f2752bc05)
![Bahrain accused of systematic torture inside hospitals [Al-Alam, Iran]](/images/image_cache/base-69000/69398/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=cb71e25c238a9037594a461aedff318b)