Bahrain Watch is a "research and advocacy organisation" devoted to issues related to

Bahrain Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...

. In 2013 the group led a campaign to block a shipment of 1.6 million tear gas canisters from

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

to Bahrain's Interior Ministry. Among the group's members is cyber-activist

Ali Abdulemam Ali Hassan Abdullah Abdulemam ( ar, علي حسن عبد الله عبد الامام), widely known as Ali Abdulemam () is a Bahraini liberal blogger and contributor to Global Voices. He is the founder of Bahrain Online, a popular online forum an ...

.Bahrain Watch 'About Us' page
accessed 13 May 2014

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* Human rights organisations based in Bahrain {{bahrain-stub