5 April 2019 – Bahrain’s Interior Minister, Sheikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, is arriving in Washington DC today, where he will be spending several days meeting with numerous policymakers and offices, including Congressional offices, the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, and the FBI. He will also be attending a private dinner with ambassadors,[…]
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Apr
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Mohamed Ebrahim Husain is a 24-year-old Bahraini who was a security guard for a private company. The Bahraini authorities have arrested him on numerous occasions, threatened him, subjected him to torture, and convicted him in unfair trials. He remains in Jau Prison, where the authorities have ignored and neglected his medical needs. Mohamed was first[…]
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Apr
Apr
Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) is pleased to release Anatomy of a Police State: Systematic Repression, Brutality, and Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior, a comprehensive look at the core security agency driving Bahrain’s human rights crisis. See the introduction to the report below, and click here to read the full report. Introduction[…]
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Apr
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In September 2018, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) presented 145 cases exhibiting a pattern of enforced disappearances in Bahrain to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID). In October 2018, the WGEID sent an allegation letter to Bahrain on the subject and the Bahraini government has elected not to[…]
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29 March 2019 – Yesterday, on 28 March 2019, 40 organizations and individuals, including Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), sent a joint letter requesting the United States (US) Congress to provide additional funding for the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions. The letter expressed how a funding increase “would enable the identification[…]
