Report in both English and Arabic now available

 

25 March 2015 – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain, the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, and the Bahrain Center for Human Rights are pleased to announce the publishing of a new report entitled, “Apart in Their Own Land: Government Discrimination against Shia in Bahrain.” The report is available for download here.

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Human rights groups express grave concern as imprisoned activist Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja goes public with hunger strike

After several unsuccessful appeals to prison administration officials for adequate medical assistance, leading Bahraini human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawajahas publicly announced that he has gone on hunger strike in protest at his continued arbitrary detention and mistreatment while in prison.  Al-Khawaja, who began the water-only hunger strike on 2 March 2015, is suffering from serious health issues and is at severe risk of further health complications.

Read the full statement here

Human rights defenders Husain Abdulla and Abdulnabi Al-Ekri threatened at the Human Rights Council

 

On 15 March 2015, during a side event that was organised by Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), human rights defenders Husain Abdulla, Executive Director of ADHRB, and Abdulnabi Al-Ekri, President of Bahrain Transparency Society and member of the Bahrain Human Rights Observatory (BHRO), were threatened with reprisals by Bahraini MP Khalid Al-Shaer, under the accreditation of the Bahrain Mission in Geneva. Al-Shaer is the Chairman of the Human Rights Committee in the Bahraini Parliament. This resulted in the need to bring UN security to prevent the MP from attending the event.

Read the full statement here

UN Special Procedures Express Concern over Erasure of the Pearl Roundabout

18 March 2015 – Four years ago, government security forces in Bahrain destroyed the Pearl Roundabout, a monument which served as the center of the February 2011 uprising and has since become a symbol of the pro-democracy movement in Bahrain.  At the most recent session of the UN Human Rights Council, the UN Special Procedures published communications they made to the government regarding the destruction of the monument and all imagery related to it. Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) join the Special Procedures in their concern over the destruction of the Pearl Roundabout, and call on the Government of Bahrain to respond to the communication and end its campaign of rewriting history.

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