Abdulelah Sayed Ahmed is a 31-year-old former bus driver arbitrarily arrested by the Bahraini authorities. He was arrested without a warrant, tortured, and convicted in an unfair trial. He is currently held in Jau Prison, where authorities have denied him access to healthcare. On 3 November 2015 at dawn, numerous police vehicles arrived at Abdulelah’s[…]
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As Bahrain’s parliamentary elections approach amid escalating political repression, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) will be closely monitoring all updates until the vote on 24 November 2018. This blog series, Election Tracker, will follow developments and provide context on the upcoming elections. See the first post on the High Committee for[…]
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On Tuesday 25 September 2018, at the 39th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) delivered an oral intervention during the Item 9 General Debate on the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. In the intervention, ADHRB raised concerns over ongoing discrimination perpetrated by the[…]
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On Tuesday 25 September 2018 at the 39th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) delivered an oral intervention during the Item 8 General Debate, on the follow-up and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. The intervention addressed concerns over States’ violations[…]
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As Bahrain’s parliamentary elections approach amid escalating political repression, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) will be closely monitoring all updates until the vote on 24 November 2018. This blog series, Election Tracker, will follow developments and provide context on the upcoming elections. On 18 September 2018, Bahrain’s Minister of[…]
