On March 21, 2025, Americans for Democracy and human rights in Bahrain delivered an intervention during the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council. In its intervention under Item 4, ADHRB highlighted the systematic discrimination against Shias in Saudi Arabia, including restrictions on mosques, religious freedom, exclusion from senior positions, & school curriculums promoting hate[…]
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On March 21, 2025, Americans for Democracy and human rights in Bahrain delivered an intervention during the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council. In its intervention under Item 4, ADHRB urged Bahrain to end the systemic religious repression of Shia political prisoners, restore their right to worship, and cease all forms of collective[…]
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Oct
Oct
On 27th September 2024, ADHRB delivered an intervention at the United Nation Human Rights Council session 57 under items 3 and 5 during the Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples. ADHRB drew the Council’s attention to the discrimination against the indigenous people in Bahrain. We draw the Council’s attention to[…]
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Sep
Updated: Mr. Hasan Mushaima is a prominent Bahraini opposition figure and political prisoner who has been serving his life sentence in Jau Prison since 2011 after being charged with attempting to overthrow the government in light of his role in the pro-democracy demonstrations. During his imprisonment, authorities have been subjecting the 76-year-old to maltreatment and[…]
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Jul
Updated: Hasan Moosa Jaafar Ali was a 16-year-old Bahraini student with learning disabilities when he was arrested for the first time without a warrant on 23 September 2013. During his detention, he endured torture, enforced disappearance, solitary confinement, denial of attorney access, isolation, reprisals, religious discrimination, and medical neglect. He was sentenced to a total[…]
