Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) has launched today an international campaign to pressure Kuwait to respect the rights of the “Bidoon” community and put an end to the violations they face in terms of access to basic services in education, healthcare, and employment, as well as freedom of expression and assembly.[…]
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The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) adopted an opinion on 20 June 2023 and published it on its website during its 96th session concerning six Bahraini students, three of whom were minors at the time of the arrest, who were arbitrarily arrested and subjected to gruesome human rights violations. Concerned with the[…]
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Updated: Abduljabbar Isa Mohamed was a 20-year-old Bahraini worker at a McDonald’s when he was arrested without a warrant in November 2021. He was sentenced in a mass trial lacking fair trial procedures for a duration of ten years. Currently, Abduljabbar is suffering, along with many political prisoners, from the escalating policy of medical negligence[…]
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Updated – Faris Habib Husain, was an 18-year-old student when he was beaten and arrested without a warrant in a house raid. He was consequently tortured and subjected to fair trial violations. He is currently serving his 10-year sentence at Jau prison. On 9 February 2021, Faris was summoned by a call to his father[…]
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Gender discrimination against women’s right to transfer Bahraini citizenship to children – a freedom that is reserved for male citizens Constitutional provisions on gender equality and laws guaranteeing equal rights to confer citizenship are crucial for ensuring women’s legal equality, but gaps remain in many countries. According to the UN Women Report of 2022 on[…]
