Today, 5 March, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain Advocacy Associate, Michael Payne, delivered an oral intervention during an Interactive Dialogue with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at the 28th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. Please continue reading below for his full remarks. A pdf of[…]
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Head of EBOHR Husain Parweez Subjected to Torture to Extract Confession Husain Jawad Parweez with his family 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[…]
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15 January 2015 – This week, 16 human rights organisations have written to 47 States to express grave concern ahead of a 20 January verdict in the trial of Nabeel Rajab, a prominent Bahraini human rights defender. Please click here for a PDF of this statement. Additionally, Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain, The[…]
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In September 2014, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) engaged the 27th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, Switzerland to raise awareness of ongoing human rights abuses in Bahrain and neighboring Saudi Arabia. ADHRB met with dozens of Member States, the United Nations Office of the High[…]
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Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), express their grave concern over the arrest and detention of leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab. As part of an ongoing campaign to protect human rights in Bahrain we call[…]
