1 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 Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on promoting and protecting human rights while countering terrorism. In the intervention, Lopez expresses serious concern about the impact of[…]
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1 March 2019 – Yesterday, on 28 February, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) submitted a statement for the Congressional Record, addressing the deteriorating situation in Bahrain. Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) welcomes Senator Wyden’s statement and echos the concerns raised. In his statement, Senator Wyden looked back eight years to the violent[…]
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1 March 2019 — Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) delivered an oral intervention under Item 3 to the SR on Privacy and Cultural Rights during the 40th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) raising serious concern over the targeting and denaturalization of religious leaders and systematical repression of Bahrains Baharna indigenous […]
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On 22 January 2019, 26-year-old British tourist Ali Issa Ahmad was reportedly arrested and beaten by United Arab Emirates (UAE) security officials for sporting a Qatar soccer shirt during the Asian Cup match between Iraq and Qatar in the UAE. Ahmad was unaware of UAE’s policy that anything that could be seen as showing sympathy[…]
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Ahead of the 40th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain submitted a written statement to the Council raising serious concern over ongoing war in Yemen and the role of Saudi-led and Emirati-led coalition forces in committing human rights abuses on the ground. Continue[…]
