On April 13, 2025, Bahrain hosted its 20th Formula 1 Grand Prix at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir—an event once again promoted as a celebration of global sport and national pride. But for many human rights advocates, this milestone doesn’t represent progress. Instead, it marks two decades of sportswashing—the use of international events to[…]
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Apr
Apr
Aqeel Muslem AbdulHusain Juma, a 16-year-old minor and school student, was arrested by Bahraini authorities on 14 January 2025 after appearing for a summons before the High Criminal Court. He is the younger brother of 17-year-old detained minor Abbas Muslem AbdulHusain Juma, who was arrested on 26 August 2024 and convicted on similar charges in[…]
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Apr
Apr
Since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, many demonstrations have taken to the streets of Bahrain in protest. Minors participating in said demonstrations were not spared from the arbitrary mass arrests of protestors. Despite supposed clemency from the ruling family of Bahrain in the form of an official pardon, many minors are kept[…]
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Apr
Apr
Over 30 years ago, on 13 February 1992, Bahrain became a party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). This landmark treaty established universal human rights for children under the age of 18 years old. The treaty has been almost unanimously adopted in the United Nations with all but one[…]
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Mar
Mar
On March 21, 2025, Americans for Democracy and human rights in Bahrain delivered an intervention during the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council. In its intervention under Item 5, ADHRB drew the Council’s attention to the ongoing detention and mistreatment of Bahrain’s prominent elderly human rights defenders, imprisoned since 2011 for their activism and[…]
