At an event on 28 September 2022 during the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 51st session, human rights NGOs called for UN member states to help secure the immediate release of detained human rights defenders and other prisoners of conscience in Bahrain. The event was organised by Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), the Bahrain[…]
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On 30 September, ADHRB has delivered an oral intervention at the United Nation Human Rights Council session 51 under item 6, during the General debate. ADHRB demands that Bahrain be held accountable for its failure to implement past UPR recommendations. With Bahrain’s 4th cycle Universal Periodic Review coming up, Americans for Democracy and[…]
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On 30 September, ADHRB has delivered an oral intervention at the United Nation Human Rights Council session 51 under item 5, during the General debate. ADHRB raises the issue of systemic reprisal in Bahrain. Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, This marks yet another year with Bahrain named in the report on reprisals. It is[…]
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Hussain Ali Ayyad was 19 years old, still a student from AlShakhoora, when officers from the Bahraini Ministry of Interior arrested him in 2017. He was tortured and sentenced in an unfair trial and is currently serving a lengthy sentence in Jau Prison. On 27 February 2017, armed civilian officers and riot police raided Hussain’s[…]
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On 27 September, ADHRB has delivered an oral intervention at the United Nation Human Rights Council session 51 under item 4, during the General debate. ADHRB urges the HRC to exert pressure on Bahrain to disclose the fate of political prisoners. Mr. President, ADHRB would like to raise concern about the fate of a number[…]
