On 17 September 2020, ADHRB has delivered an oral intervention at the United Nation Human Rights Council session 45 during on interactive debate with The Special Rapporteur on the use of mercenaries. Madam Vice-President We share the concerns raised by the Working Group’s report on the use of private military and security services to violate[…]
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Sep
Sep
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) and the Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SR), published a communication sent to the Bahraini government regarding the case of a sixteen-year-old Bahraini student who was charged with assaulting a police officer, manufacturing a fake bomb, burning tyres[…]
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Sep
Sep
On 13 July 2015, during the month of Ramadan, Husain Jaafar Saleh was arrested at a bazaar in Al Malikiyah, Bahrain. He was a 27-year-old final-year engineering student at the Bahrain Training Institute and owned a shop that sold bags. Initially, Husain was sentenced in absentia to five years imprisonment. He maintains that he did[…]
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Sep
Sep
Over the last five decades, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has rapidly transformed from a sparsely populated desert territory, to the Middle East’s epicenter of business and luxury tourism. However, hidden behind the grandeur of Emirati wealth and prestige, lies an autocratic police state rife with human rights violations including human trafficking, religious persecution and[…]
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Sep
Sep
Americans for Democracy & Human Rights (ADHRB) is launching an international campaign in solidarity, with twelve Bahraini citizens at imminent risk of execution in Bahrain. The goal of the campaign is to highlight the injustices that these individual went through whether when it comes to not receiving their legal rights or lack of due process[…]
