American Teen on Trial in Bahrain Calls for Human Rights Protections for All Child Prisoners

An American teen imprisoned in Bahrain is calling for human rights protections for all Bahraini children who are subjected to detainment and imprisonment in the country. On May 6 2014, 17-year-old American citizen Abdulla Jaffar Abdulla will be tried in a Bahraini court on political charges. Abdulla is not the first American or the first[…]

USCIRF 2014 Annual Report Highlights Religious Freedom Violations in Bahrain

Today the U.S. Commission in International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released its 2014 Annual Report, and highlighted Bahrain as a country that should be the “focus of concern.” The section on Bahrain confirmed what many international organizations have been saying since the Bahraini government’s acceptance of the 2011 Bahrain Independent Commission of inquiry (BICI): that a[…]

ADHRB Sends Letter to King Juan Carlos I of Spain in Advance of Official Visit to Bahrain

WASHINGTON, D.C. – 28 April 2014 – Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) today sent a letter to His Majesty King Juan Carlos I of Spain urging him to address the human rights situation in Bahrain with his counterpart during his official visit to the country later this week. King Juan Carlos I[…]

ADHRB Weekly Newsletter 49

From DC to the HRC Event Recap On 23 April 2014, Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain hosted a launch event for its latest report titled A Follow-Up Report on Bahrain’s UPR Second Cycle: The Deteriorating Situation in Bahrain. Held at the Open Society Foundations, the event featured a panel discussion on Bahrain’s implementation of[…]

U.N. Special Rapporteur on Religious Freedom Admonishes Bahrain

The United Nations (U.N.) Office at Geneva released a statement yesterday from Heiner Bielefeldt, the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, urging the Government of Bahrain to end its persecution and harassment of senior religious leader, Hussain al-Najati, and expressing grave concerns at this religiously motivated discrimination against the cleric. The Special Rapporteurs[…]