On 20 June 2016, thousands of Bahrainis gathered in the streets of Diraz to protest the government’s citizenship revocation of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim. Over two and a half weeks later, the round-the-clock sit-in continues. Activists from the ground have reported to Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) that internet service is[…]
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Bahraini human rights defender Ghada Jamsheer is in danger of being re-arrested following the decision of an appeals court to increase her sentence. The charges are in relation to several tweets attributed to Jamsheer in which she accused the royally-operated King Hamad Hospital of corruption. Jamsheer leads a network of women human rights defenders (WHRDs)[…]
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Tomorrow, 12 July 2016, the trial of the prominent human rights defender Nabeel Rajab begins. Facing charges related to comments on the social media website Twitter, Rajab may be sentenced to more than ten years in prison. We, the undersigned NGOs, hold the government of Bahrain responsible for the deterioration of Rajab’s health due to[…]
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In March 2013, the Saudi government forced the Saudi Arabian Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA) to close. ACPRA was a prominent human rights organization, and one of the few independent civil society organizations in the country. On 29 May 2016, the government’s Specialized Criminal Court (SCC) sentenced ACPRA’s last free co-founder, Abdulaziz al-Shubaily, to[…]
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On Thursday 30 June 2016, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) held a protest outside the Bahraini Embassy in Washington, D.C. to bring awareness to the campaign of repression against civil society by the Government of Bahrain. The protest included signs calling attention to use of travel bans, the re-arrest and imprisonment[…]
