Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) is seeking creative, organized, passionate, and hard-working applicants for our Advocacy Internship position for the Spring (January 2018 – May 2018). We are happy to work with students seeking academic course credit for their work. The internship is unpaid. Responsibilities Interns will: Track and report on[…]
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Following his September announcement that Saudi Arabia’s driving ban on women will be lifted in 2018, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman this week unveiled two new measures that are part of his Vision 2030 for Saudi Arabia: the country will allow women to enter sport stadiums and it will build “NEOM,” a $500 billion mega-city[…]
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Click here to sign the petition from Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain and RootsAction.org demanding that Nabeel Rajab be freed immediately. See below for more information on Nabeel Rajab and the petition to release him from prison for exercising his right to free expression in Bahrain. ________________________ Nabeel Rajab is president of[…]
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Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) today received reports that the Bahraini government has deported Ebrahim Karimi to Iraq following a 2012 administrative order that arbitrarily revoked his citizenship. The authorities arrested Karimi after raiding his home in September 2015 without a warrant. They took him to the Criminal Investigation Directorate (CID)[…]
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Update: On 26 October 2017, ADHRB received reports that Bahraini authorities transferred Nabeel Rajab from the Ministry of Interior (MOI) police clinic, Al-Qala’a, to Jau Prison, the kingdom’s main long-stay male detention center. The prison administration appears to be holding him away from other political prisoners and the guards have subjected him to degrading treatment,[…]
