On 13 March, Sayed Yousif al-Muhafdha, acting vice-president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), delivered an oral intervention at the 28th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva under Item 3. Please continue reading for full remarks or click here to download a PDF. الرجاء الضغط هنا لقراءة هذه الرسالة باللغة العربي ### Mr. President,[…]
11 March 2015 – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain, in coordination with the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Index on Censorship, PEN International, and the International Federation of Human Rights, hosted a discussion at the 28th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The[…]
Today, 5 March, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain Advocacy Associate, Michael Payne, delivered an oral intervention during an Interactive Dialogue with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at the 28th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. Please continue reading below for his full remarks. A pdf of[…]
3 March 2015 – Geneva, Switzerland – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy take this opportunity to respond to the statement made today by Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain, Abdullah Abdullatif Abdullah, at the 28th Session of the[…]
27 February 2015 – On 26 February 2015, amid allegations that severe torture was used to extract coerced confessions, Bahrain’s High Criminal Court sentenced three Bahrainis to death after convicting them of killing three policemen in 2014. Reprieve, Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) and the[…]