Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), along with the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), Human Rights Watch, Article 19, the Gulf Center for Human Rights, Index on Censorship, English PEN, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), CIVICUS, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights[…]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9 September 2015 – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) welcomes the introduction of H.R. 3445, the bipartisan resolution in the United States House of Representatives that would reinstate the US arms sales ban to Bahrain until the country implements all 26 recommendations of the Bahrain Commission of Inquiry[…]
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Last year marked the first general elections to be held in Bahrain since the pro-democracy uprising of 2011. Since the election, which has been named amongst the worst elections in 2014 alongside those in Syria and Afghanistan, the Government of Bahrain has infringed on the freedoms of political opposition societies across the political spectrum. Al-Wefaq,[…]
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ADHRB and BIRD Publish Report on Prisoners and Detainees Rights Commission: Fundamentally Flawed On 2 September 2015, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) published a report on the Prisoners and Detainees Rights Commission (PDRC) in Bahrain. The PDRC is a UK-trained body as part of[…]
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*Best viewed in full-screen mode. In Mapping the Saudi State, Chapter 6: The Saudi Armed Forces, ADHRB studies the major branches of the Saudi government’s military and the Ministry of Defense and Aviation (MODA), which oversees their activity. Since its origins in the 1930s, the Saudi armed forces have largely been organized and trained by foreign[…]
