Geneva, Switzerland – From 10 September to 25 September 2018, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) participated in the 39th Session of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC) and highlighted widespread human rights violations committed by the Governments of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States. ADHRB[…]
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Abdulelah Sayed Ahmed is a 31-year-old former bus driver arbitrarily arrested by the Bahraini authorities. He was arrested without a warrant, tortured, and convicted in an unfair trial. He is currently held in Jau Prison, where authorities have denied him access to healthcare. On 3 November 2015 at dawn, numerous police vehicles arrived at Abdulelah’s[…]
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On Tuesday 25 September 2018, at the 39th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) delivered an oral intervention during the Item 9 General Debate on the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. In the intervention, ADHRB raised concerns over ongoing discrimination perpetrated by the[…]
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On Tuesday 25 September 2018 at the 39th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) delivered an oral intervention during the Item 8 General Debate, on the follow-up and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. The intervention addressed concerns over States’ violations[…]
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On Friday 21 September, during the Agenda Item 5 General Debate of the 39th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain delivered an oral intervention, reading a portion of a letter written by Hajar Mansour Hassan, an arbitrarily detained Bahraini reprisal victim cited in the Secretary[…]
