Bahrain
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- constitutional monarchy
- CONSTITUTION
- February 14, 2002; amended in 2012, 2017
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- mixed legal system of Islamic law (sharia), English common law, Egyptian civil, criminal, and commercial codes; customary law; has not submitted a declaration of jurisdiction to the ICJ
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral legislature composed of the Consultative Council and the Council of Representatives (House of Deputies)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Court of Cassation (composed of the president and 3 judges); Supreme Court of Appeal (composed of the president and 3 judges); Constitutional Court (composed of the president and 6 members); High Sharia Appeal Court (court sessions include the president and at least one judge); High civil appeal courts; intermediate and lower civil courts; High Sharia Appeal Court; High Sharia Court; Administrative Appeal Courts; military courts
RELIGIONS
Muslim 73.7%, Christian 9.3%, Jewish 0.1%, other 16.9% (estimate 2017)
From the country
- DECEMBER 18, 2007BahrainDEATH PENALTY
Bahrain voted against the Resolution...
Bahrain voted against the Resolution...
- AUGUST 2, 2007BahrainDEATH PENALTY
BAHRAIN. MP CALLS FOR SCRAPPING OF DEATH PENALTY
a lawmaker called for the scrapping of the death penalty to avoid jeopardising
- JANUARY 17, 2007BahrainDEATH PENALTY
MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER TO BE EXECUTED
a Bahraini court sentenced a Bangladeshi to death and jailed two others for life for murder of one of their countrymen in October 2005.
- JANUARY 14, 2007BahrainDEATH PENALTY
DEATH PENALTY STAYS FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING IN BAHRAIN
Bahrain is to keep the death penalty for drug traffickers. The Shura Council voted overwhelmingly in favour
- JANUARY 1, 2007BahrainDEATH PENALTY
The offences for which capital punishment either can or must be applied are
The offences for which capital punishment either can or must be applied are
- DECEMBER 11, 2006BahrainDEATH PENALTY
BAHRAIN. THREE FOREIGN NATIONALS EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD
three foreign nationals convicted of murder were executed by firing squad at Jaw prison, Bahrain. It was reported that Pakistani Mohammed Hanif Atta Mohammed, aged 37, was allowed to meet his three-year-old son for the first time just one day before he
- AUGUST 21, 2006BahrainDEATH PENALTY
BAHRAIN. USE DEATH PENALTY AS DETERRENT SAY MPS
a call for Bahrain to enforce the death penalty went out from MPs and lawyers in the wake of the brutal shooting of a Bahraini man in Muharraq. The murder of Bahraini Mahdi Abdulrahman Mohammed, 38, followed the slaying of 37-year-old Bahraini Sana Al Jal
- JULY 22, 2006BahrainDEATH PENALTY
BAHRAIN. PARLIAMENT OKAYS TOUGH ANTI-TERROR LAW
Bahrain's appointed upper chamber approved a tough law to combat terrorism already passed by the elected parliament and that critics say "punishes suspects for their intentions."
- JULY 12, 2006BahrainDEATH PENALTY
BAHRAIN. MPS DROP DEATH PENALTY FROM ANTI TERROR LAW
MPs dropped the death penalty from all but one clause of Bahrain's proposed anti-terrorism law.
- JULY 5, 2006BahrainDEATH PENALTY
BAHRAIN SEEKS DEATH PENALTY FOR THREATS TO PUBLIC SAFETY, UTILITIES
Parliament has approved the death penalty for jeopardising public safety or damaging public utilities during its initial stages of review of the first anti-terrorism draft law in Bahrain.
- FEBRUARY 13, 2006BahrainDEATH PENALTY
BAHRAIN. CHILD RAPISTS TO FACE DEATH PENALTY UNDER NEW PROPOSALS
new laws were being brought in to protect children in Bahrain against rapists and pedophiles
- JANUARY 1, 2006BahrainDEATH PENALTY
The offences for which capital punishment either can or must be applied are
The offences for which capital punishment either can or must be applied are