On Tuesday, 12 September 2017, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) delivered an oral intervention at the 36th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC). The intervention was delivered by ADHRB’s Advocacy Officer Michael Payne under the Council’s Item 2 General Debate. To read and watch the intervention, please see[…]
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After 455 days of arbitrary detention, the Bahraini government has again postponed the trial of leading human rights defender and president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) Nabeel Rajab. Arrested on 13 June 2016, Rajab was sentenced to two years in prison in a separate case in July 2017, and is now[…]
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11 September 2017 – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) delivered an oral intervention today at the 36th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC). ADHRB’s Legal Fellow Devin Kenney delivered the intervention under HRC Item 3’s Clustered ID with the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. Video of[…]
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6 September 2017 – The Government of Bahrain has launched a renewed campaign of reprisals against Bahraini civil society actors ahead of the 36th Session of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC), set to begin on Monday, 11 September 2017. Over the last several days, human rights defenders Fatima al-Halwachi and Zainab al-Khamees;[…]
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In early August, more than 50 construction workers gathered to protest unpaid wages in Bahrain. The group claimed that almost 200 employees had not been paid since last November. According to local media reports, one protesting employee stated that the company had falsely informed the government that the dues had been paid in order to[…]
