SAKHIR, Bahrain (Reuters) -Pope Francis spoke against the death penalty on Thursday at the start of a trip to Bahrain where the Shi'ite Muslim opposition accuse the Sunni monarchy of overseeing human ...

Bahraini courts have convicted and sentenced defendants to death following manifestly unfair trials, based solely or primarily on confessions allegedly coerced through torture and ill-treatment, Human ...

AWALI, Bahrain (AP) — Pope Francis urged Bahrain authorities on Thursday to renounce the death penalty and ensure basic human rights are guaranteed for all citizens as he arrived in the Sunni-led ...

Prosecutors in Bahrain said Thursday they had filed criminal charges over the death in custody of a man who was detained by the country's National Intelligence Agency. The criminal case against an ...

A court in Bahrain on Tuesday sentenced a member of the Gulf kingdom’s domestic spy agency to life in prison over the in-custody death of a man arrested during the Iran war. Bahrain’s state news ...

Bahrain’s top military court sentenced six men to death on Monday after convicting them of charges including plotting to assassinate the Gulf state’s armed forces chief, state media reported. It was ...

BCHR calls for an independent investigation into the death of Al-Mousawi, citing enforced disappearances, medical negligence, and prosecutions of peaceful dissent in a detention system marked by abuse ...

Bahrain’s top criminal court on Monday sentenced four Shiite Muslims to death for a 2017 bombing that killed a policeman in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, a judicial official and the public prosecutor said.

ROME – In his first formal appointment in the Gulf nation of Bahrain, Pope Francis Thursday condemned the use of the death penalty, which is still in force in the country and has been condemned by ...