15 November 2019 – On 12 November, Irish politician Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney, what steps he is taking to secure the release of political prisoners in Bahrain. Broughan also inquired if Foreign Minister Coveney has met with Bahraini officials in regard to the issue, and if he plans[…]
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12 November 2019 – Today, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) submitted a mid-term assessment of Bahrain’s completion of recommendations from its Third Cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR), which took place in 2017. The assessment highlights Bahrain’s lack of commitment to the UPR process, as a majority of recommendations remain unimplemented more[…]
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On 15 July 2019, the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, the Special[…]
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7 November 2019 – Today, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) published an Opinion on the case of Abbas al-Hassan, a Saudi man who was arrested in 2013 and executed on 23 April 2019. The WGAD found his detention to have been arbitrary and unlawful, in violation of his right to a[…]
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Salah Saeed AlHammar is a 26-year-old Bahraini citizen, who was arbitrarily detained, tortured, and later placed in solitary confinement after participating in a hunger strike to protest the poor prison conditions. Salah remains imprisoned at Jau Prison. In mid-December 2011, officials arrested Salah in the street without providing a warrant. Salah was charged with illegal[…]
