Event Summary: Preventing the Next ISIS Panelists Charles Dunne (Freedom House), Mohamed al-Tajer (BHRO), Dr. Robert Herman (Freedom House), Frederic Wehrey (Carnegie) and Sarah Margon (HRW) discuss extremism in the GCC. 12 February 2015 – Washington, DC – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), with Freedom House, hosted an event on 11[…]
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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[…]
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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[…]
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During February 2011, more than 200,000 Bahraini citizens set up camp at the Pearl Roundabout in the capital of Manama to call for substantive government reform. Inspired by the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, Bahrainis from all walks of life withstood government raids and political arrests during their month-long occupation of the iconic[…]
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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[…]
