HRC37 Intervention on Cybersurveillance and Cyber Attacks on Bahraini and Emirati Activists

On Tuesday 6 March, at the 37th session of the Human Rights Council, ADHRB’s legal fellow, Bridget Quitter delivered an intervention during the Clustered Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteurs on privacy and sale of children. In her intervention, she raised the Bahraini and Emirati government’s use of cyber technology to spy on their citizens,[…]

FinFisher Strikes Again

Yesterday, British news agencies reported that Bahraini officials remotely monitored and interfered with the private communications of three Bahraini expatriates and human rights activists living in the United Kingdom. Through the use of FinFisher software, Bahraini authorities were able to download malware onto the personal devices of Dr. Saeed Shehabi, Mohammed Moosa Abd-Ali Ali and[…]

Bahrain Bi-Weekly: Issue 12

Featured Followers ADHRB Marks the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture In 1997, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed June 26 to be the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Each year, nations and organizations around the world pause on this day to speak out against torture and to honor and[…]

Bahrain Bi-Weekly: Issue 9

Featured Followers ADHRB features relevant, timely Tweets by its Twitter followers in each newsletter. In Bahrain, An Uprising Unabated Written by Husain Abdulla* Protesters in February 2011. Credit: Nick Kristof, New York Times More than two years after peaceful demonstrators took to the streets to demand reforms, Bahrain’s uprising has not abated. In recent weeks, human[…]

Bahrain Bi-Weekly: Issue 8

Featured Followers ADHRB features relevant, timely Tweets by its Twitter followers in each newsletter.   ADHRB Asks UNESCO to Change Name and Funding Source of King Hamad Prize   2011 Winners of the UNESCO-King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize with Ms. Irinia Bokova. Credit: UNESCO   On May 8, Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain[…]