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In 2016, the organization launched a website titled #200MoreStories in response to the British Council's #200Stories, which aimed to celebrate "200 years of relations between the UK and Bahrain". Bahrain Watch started their campaign to draw attention to more critical and nuanced perspectives on the
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The organization has leaked documents relating to donations or funding given by the Bahraini government to other groups or organizations. In 2017, the group launched the Bahrain Budget Transparency Project, an online repository of data about the budgets of the Bahraini government.
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One of the group's subdivisions, PR Watch, works to identify articles commissioned by the Bahraini government in Western newspapers. The group estimates the government spent US$ 50 million on such commissioned pieces between 2011 and 2014.
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In 2015, the group released a report on a series of digital attacks made against Bahraini activists living abroad, although they were not able to identify the perpetrator.
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In 2012, Bahrain Watch reported that Bahraini police were using unmarked tear gas canisters to obscure which countries and companies they were sourced from.
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for allegedly providing spyware to the Bahraini government. Bahrain Watch itself has faced multiple attempted hacking attacks.
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In July 2016, Bahrain Watch released a report on the government's suppression of the internet in
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In 2013, the group led a campaign to block a shipment of 1.6 million tear gas canisters from
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is a "research and advocacy organisation" devoted to issues related to
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In 2018, the group reported that the Bahraini government was using
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to find information about and track activists on social media.
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In 2014, the group filed a complaint in the UK against
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Bahrain
Ala'a Shehabi
South Korea
Bahrain's Interior Ministry
Gamma International
Diraz
spyware
Ali Abdulemam



"The Bahraini activist Ala'a Shehabi: David versus goliath"
"Bahrain Is Criticized for Its 'Torrent' of Tear Gas Use"
ISSN
0362-4331


"South Korea halts Bahrain tear gas exports"
"Rights Group Warns Against Bahrain's Use of Tear Gas Against Protesters"
ISSN
0362-4331
"Bahrain Watch et al. vs. Dae Kwang"
"Bahraini Activists Hacked by Their Government Go After UK Spyware Maker"
ISSN
1059-1028
"A brief history of governments hacking human rights organizations"
"Bahrain Watch: We Identified Targeted Digital Attack on Bahraini Activists Abroad"
"How Did "Bahrain Watch" Tests Prove Bahraini Gov't Technique in Deliberate Cut of Internet in Diraz?"
"Bahrain's internet shutdown marks a 'new form of information control'"
"Bahrain imposes 'internet curfew' near protests, activists say"

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