Newsletter #92

Head of EBOHR Husain Parweez Subjected to Torture to Extract Confession Husain Jawad Parweez with his family On 22 February 2015, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) received confirmed reports that Bahraini authorities tortured Husain Jawad[…]

Child Prisoners in Bahrain

On 17 February 2015, seventeen year-old American-Bahraini Abdullah Jaffar was sentenced to two years in prison. Charged with participating in illegal gatherings, possessing Molotov cocktails, and attacking a policeman, his conviction was based exclusively on a false confession he provided after enduring sustained physical abuse at the hands of security officers following his arrest on[…]

ADHRB Condemns Bahrain’s Sentencing of American Teen to Two Year Imprisonment

18 January 2015 – Washington, D.C. – On 17 February, a Bahraini court sentenced 17-year-old Bahraini-American Abdulla Jaffar to two years imprisonment on charges of participating in an illegal gathering, possession of Molotov cocktails and attacking policemen. Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) condemns the court’s decision to sentence Jaffar based on[…]

Newsletter #91

Event Summary: Preventing the Next ISIS Panelists Charles Dunne (Freedom House), Mohamed al-Tajer (BHRO), Dr. Robert Herman (Freedom House), Frederic Wehrey (Carnegie) and Sarah Margon (HRW) discuss extremism in the GCC. 12 February 2015 – Washington, DC – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), with Freedom House, hosted an event on 11[…]

NGOs Commemorate the Four Year Anniversary of Bahrain’s Peaceful Uprising

13 February 2015 – On 14 February 2011, more than 200,000 people from all walks of life flooded the streets of Bahrain to protest state corruption, government oppression, sectarian discrimination and a lack of self-representation and equality in law. On the fourth anniversary of the uprising in Bahrain, Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in[…]