Barack Obama Must Push King Hamad to Free Nabeel Rajab, Bahrain’s Nelson Mandela Nabeel Rajab has been accused by the prosecution service of “spreading tendentious rumors” about Bahrain Dear President Obama, When you first entered the political scene, I was initially sceptical that someone who shared my name would ever sit in the Oval Office.[…]
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Leading Bahraini Activist’s Detention Extended Nabeel Rajab has been accused by the prosecution service of “spreading tendentious rumors” about Bahrain Bahrain on Sunday extended by two weeks the period of detention for prominent rights activist Nabeel Rajab, accused of spreading false news, for the second time this month. Rajab’s family say he was arrested on April[…]
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NGOs Call on Bahrain to Cease Arrests Over Freedom of Opinion Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) and the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) urge for the immediate release of Fadhel Abbas, the Secretary General of the Democratic Unity Gathering Society (Al Wahdawi)[…]
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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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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[…]
