Léa Luszez Student at Sciences Po Rennes and intern at the NGO Salam for Democracy and Human Rights. Bahrain Takes Advantage of the Sanitary Crisis to Step Up its Repression of the Opposition Léa Luszez · August 2021 Though Bahrain has often been accused of serious violations of human rights, the Covid-19 pandemic, which has already caused 1,384 deaths (15 August 2021) among a population of around 1.7 million, has further contributed to the intensification of the regime’s repressive and freedom-killing (…)