Profiles in Persecution: Husain Radhi AbdulNabi

Husain Radhi AbdulNabi is a 13-year-old Bahraini boy being arbitrarily detained in the Bahrain’s Juvenile Care Center in Isa Town. On 14 February 2019, armed officers in civilian clothing arrested Husain on the street in the village of al-Musalla, during an ongoing protest nearby. Officers beat him and yelled at him, and arrested him without[…]

ADHRB at HRC40: the mistreatment of minors in Bahraini detention centers

6 March 2019 – Today at the 40th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council,  Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) delivered an oral intervention during the Item 3 Clustered Interactive Dialogue with the Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) on violence against children and children in armed conflict. This[…]

ADHRB Panel Event at HRC40 makes the case for International Action on Bahrain

5 March 2019 – Today, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) held a panel event at the 40th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in which panelists outlined the deteriorating human rights situation in Bahrain, making the case for international action to stem the slide in human rights. The[…]

ADHRB at HRC40 highlights torture against minors in Bahraini prisons

5 March 2019 – Today, Clara Sanchez Lopez, on behalf of Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) delivered an oral intervention during the Item 3 Clustered ID with the Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) on violence against children and children in armed conflict. In her intervention, she discussed the situations[…]

ADHRB at HRC40: the violation of the inter-related rights of free expression and religion in Bahrain

5 March 2019 – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) takes this opportunity at the 40th Session of the Human Rights Council, during the Clustered Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Religion and the Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children to raise attention to the Bahraini government’s recurrent infringement on freedom[…]