After several unsuccessful appeals to prison administration officials for adequate medical assistance, leading Bahraini human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawajahas publicly announced that he has gone on hunger strike in protest at his continued arbitrary detention and mistreatment while in prison. Al-Khawaja, who began the water-only hunger strike on 2 March 2015, is suffering from serious health[…]
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يسرّ كل من منظمة أمريكيون من أجل الديمقراطية وحقوق الإنسان في البحرين ومعهد البحرين للحقوق والديمقراطية ومركز البحرين لحقوق الإنسان الإعلان عن نشر النسخة العربية من التقرير الجديد بعنوان: مُهمَّشُونَ فِي وَطَنِهِم: التَّميِيزُ الحُكومِي ضد الشِّيعة في البحرين الجزء الأول: العنف، والاستبعاد السياسي، والاعتداء على المؤسسة الدينية الشيعية بالإمكان قراءة تمهيد التقرير أدناه، ولتحميل كامل[…]
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk4iJ3YFAFM[/youtube] On 19 March, ADHRB Advocacy Associate, Michael Payne, delivered an oral intervention at the 28th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva during an interactive panel entitled National Policies & Human Rights. Please continue reading for full remarks or click here to download a PDF. الرجاء الضغط هنا لقراءة هذه الرسالة باللغة العربي ### Mr. President, Americans for Democracy[…]
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On 15 March 2015 during a side event that was organized by Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), human rights defenders Husain Abdulla, Executive Director of ADHRB, and Abdulnabi Al-Ekri, President of Bahrain Transparency Society and member of the Bahrain Human Rights Observatory (BHRO), were reportedly threatened by MP Khalid Al-Shaer, Chairman[…]
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An Arabic version of this statement can be found here. ### Washington, DC – March 18, 2011 – Four years ago today, government security forces in Bahrain destroyed the Pearl Roundabout, a monument which served as the center of the February 2011 uprising and has since become a symbol of the pro-democracy movement in Bahrain.[…]
