ADHRB Holds a Panel at La Sapienza University in Italy on Bahrain-Italy relations

On Tuesday 4 June, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) organized an event at La Sapienza University in Rome. At the event, ADHRB and Amnesty International–Italy raised concerns about human rights violations in Bahrain, the Italy-Bahrain bilateral relationship, and Bahrain’s endowment of the King Hamad Chair for Interfaith Dialogue and Peaceful coexistance.[…]

ADHRB Strongly Condemns Bahrain’s New Legal Campaign to Attack Activists on Social Media

4 June 2019 – In the last few weeks, the Bahraini government has taken increased measures to criminalize dissent via social media, specifically targeting the accounts of activists and their followers with a new legal campaign and increased threats. Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) strongly condemns this intense suppression of free[…]

ADHRB Briefs the Italian Parliament’s Human Rights Committee on the Situation in Bahrain

On Monday, 13 May 2019, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) testified in front of the Permanent Committee of Human Rights, a subcommittee in the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Italian Parliament’s lower house. In the testimony, ADHRB highlighted the Bahraini government’s escalation of abuses since 2016, its targeting of human rights[…]

The Gulf Remains an Area of Darkness on World Press Freedom Day

Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) joins the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in commemorating World Press Freedom Day. On World Press Freedom Day’s 26th anniversary, ADHRB remains deeply concerned on the status of press freedom in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states. These countries[…]

USCIRF Designates Bahrain as Tier 2 Country for Third Consecutive Year in Annual Report

30 April 2019 – Yesterday, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released its 2019 Annual Report, categorizing Bahrain again as a Tier 2 country “for engaging in or tolerating religious freedom violations that meet at least one of the elements of the ‘systematic, ongoing, egregious’ standard for designation as a ‘country of[…]