ADHRB Calls on the Human Rights Council to Urge the Bahraini Authorities to Annul All Convictions from Unfair Trials

On 1 July 2019, within the 41st session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneve, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) made an oral statement during the Council’s Item 3 General Debate on Bahrain’s increasing implementation of mass trials to convict dissidents. And called on Bahrain to restore revoked nationalities, to[…]

Side Event on Bahrain at HRC41: Systematic Erasure of Political, Religious, Cultural, and Historical Identity

2 July 2019 – Today, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain hosted a side event at the 41st session of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC). The event was co-sponsored by Amnesty International, Article 19, Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, Committee to Protect Journalists, English[…]

ADHRB Presents Remarks on the Netherlands’ Unlawful Return of Ali AlShowaikh to Bahrain at the Human Rights Committee

UPDATE: On 25 July 2019, the Human Rights Committee published its concluding observations on its review of the Netherlands’ ICCPR obligations, in which the Committee seems to reference Ali’s case: “The Committee is, however, concerned about reports of forced returns of asylum seekers, whose application has been rejected, to . . . Bahrain, allegedly in[…]

US Department of State’s 2018 Report on International Religious Freedom Highlights Ongoing Discrimination in Bahrain But Fails to Provide Recommendations for Reform

27 June 2019 – Last week, on 21 June, the United States (US) Department of State (DoS) published its 2018 Report on International Religious Freedom, analyzing the status of religious freedom globally. This year’s report on Bahrain highlights the degree to which minority religions are free to practice in the kingdom, but also notes multiple[…]

Profiles in Persecution: Husain Ali Khamis

Husain Ali Khamis is a 31-year-old Bahraini citizen. Bahraini authorities arrested him in 2018 without a warrant, threatened him to coerce a confession, and subjected him to an unfair trial. He is currently imprisoned at Jau Prison. On 23 January 2018, a combination of officers in plain clothes, National Security Agency (NSA) officers, and officers[…]