ADHRB Responds to State Department’s 2016 Saudi Arabia Human Rights Report

Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) cautiously welcomes the United States Department of State’s Saudi 2016 Human Rights report. With several exceptions, the report addresses the numerous human rights abuses perpetrated by the Saudi government within the last year. Released on 3 March 2017, the report addresses a number of thematic issue[…]

US State Department releases 2016 report on human rights in Bahrain

On 3 March 2017, the US Department of State released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2016. Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) welcomes the release of the extensive report detailing the wide range of US human rights concerns in Bahrain and urges the State Department to remain engaged on[…]

Event Summary: ADHRB at HRC34 discusses Bahrain’s UPR

Julie Gromellon of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) started off the panel mentioning this is one more Council session where the HRC has not taken action despite deteriorating human rights abuses in Bahrain, including reprisals against human rights defenders, executions, and the continuing deterioration of the broader human rights environment in the country.[…]

Bahrain’s Third Cycle UPR: A Record of Repression

Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), in conjunction with the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), is pleased to announce our new report, Bahrain’s Third Cycle UPR: A Record of Repression. See a summary of the assessment below, and click here for the full report.[…]

Bahraini government moves to dissolve leading secular, leftist opposition society Wa’ad

6 March 2017 – The Government of Bahrain has today launched legal proceedings to dissolve Wa’ad, the country’s leading secular, leftist opposition society. The move follows the government’s summer 2016 suspension and dissolution of the largest political society, Al-Wefaq, which rendered Wa’ad the last major opposition group in Bahrain. We, the undersigned, condemn in the[…]