Featured Tweets Champions for Justice: Bahrain’s Prisoners of Conscience More than two years since the Government of Bahrain’s brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in the country, arbitrary arrests, injuries to protesters and politically motivated prison sentences continue. Numerous Bahrainis remain behind bars today, including more than a dozen prisoners of conscience. With these injustices firmly[…]
WASHINGTON, DC – November 4, 2013 – More than two years have passed since the Bahrain uprising began, which was met with a brutal crackdown by the Bahrain government, marked by dozens of deaths, hundreds of arbitrary arrests, and thousands of injuries. To this day, numerous Bahrainis remain behind bars based on politically-motivated charges,[…]
Featured Followers ADHRB Launches Prisoners of Conscience Campaign Photo Credit: Mohamed CJ via Wikimedia Commons More than two years have passed since the Bahrain uprising began, which the Bahrain government responded to with a brutal crackdown, resulting in dozens of deaths, hundreds of arbitrary arrests, and thousands of injuries. To this day, numerous Bahrainis remain[…]
WASHINGTON, DC – July 29, 2013 – More than two years have passed since the Bahrain uprising began, which was met with a brutal crackdown by the Bahrain government, marked by dozens of deaths, hundreds of arbitrary arrests, and thousands of injuries. To this day, numerous Bahrainis remain behind bars based on politically-motivated charges, including[…]
Featured Followers US Legislators Express Concern in Letter to King about Cancellation of UN Special Rapporteur’s Visit to Bahrain UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan E. Méndez Credit: Associated Press On June 7th, 20 members of the US Congress sent a letter to King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa of Bahrain to express their “concern and disappointment” regarding the recent[…]
