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 Parweez, a well-known human rights activist and head of the European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights, to extract[…]
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[…]
12 February 2015 – Washington, DC – Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), with Freedom House, hosted an event on 11 February at Freedom House entitled “Preventing the Next ISIS: How the U.S. Can Work With Coalition Partners to Combat Extremism in the GCC.” Dr. Robert Herman, Vice President for Regional Programs[…]
This week, ADHRB caught up with Bahraini human rights lawyer, Mohamed al-Tajer, during his trip to Washington, D.C. to discuss the situation in Bahrain. In your capacity as a human rights lawyer, can you talk about your work in Bahrain? As lawyers, we thought that the worst situation was the martial law in 2011 and[…]
We Are Human Rights Defenders, but Bahrain Says We’re Terrorists On 31 January 2015, the Bahraini Ministry of the Interior revoked the citizenship of Sayed Alwadaei and 71 others, including journalists, doctors, political activists and a human rights activist, rendering most of them stateless. In the Guardian, Alwadaei asks: When the government of Bahrain[…]