Category: Alwadaei Family

Bahrain: Free Imprisoned Rights Defenders and Activists

Posted date: April 06, 2020in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Bahrain 13, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, In the Press, Nabeel Rajab, News, Political Prisoners, Press Releases, Reprisals Against Family Members of Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, Sheikh Ali Salman, Statements, TimeLine, Women DetaineesNo Comments

6 April 2020, Beirut – Amid the global threat posed by COVID-19, Bahraini authorities should release human rights defenders, opposition activists, journalists and all others imprisoned... Read more

Woman Jailed in “Reprisal” For Son-in-Law’s Activism Freed in Bahrain

Posted date: March 05, 2020in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Case Studies, Casework, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Medical Negligence, News, Political Prisoners, Press Releases, Reprisals Against Family Members of Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, TimeLine, Women DetaineesNo Comments

5 March 2020 – Hajer Mansoor, mother-in-law of London-based human rights defender Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, was released from prison in Bahrain today after completing a three year sentence... Read more

Parliamentary Event – The Crackdown on Human Rights in Bahrain

Posted date: October 18, 2019in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Death Penalty, EUP, Events, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, Mohammed Ramadan, Husain Moosa, Parliament Watch, Reprisals Against Family Members of Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, Revocation of Citizenship, TimeLine, UK, UN, Women DetaineesNo Comments

18 October – Yesterday, the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) and the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR) co-hosted an event at Parliament to highlight... Read more

MPs Urge Jeremy Hunt to Press Bahrain to End “Punitive Measures” Against Female Detainees

Posted date: June 19, 2019in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, International Engagement, Najah Ahmed Yousif, Reprisals Against Family Members of Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, TimeLine, UK, Women DetaineesNo Comments

19 June 2019 – Yesterday, sixteen cross-party MPs and Peers, including Caroline Lucas, Layla Moran, Diana Johnson and Sir Peter Bottomley delivered a letter to the British Foreign Secr... Read more

An Open Letter in Support of BIRD’s Director

Posted date: April 12, 2019in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, International Engagement, TimeLine, UKNo Comments

12 April 2019 – Today, the Guardian published an open letter in support of BIRD’s Director, Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei. Find below the full letter: We write to express our deep concern... Read more

UK-Trained Bahraini Ombudsman Breaches Confidentiality of Victim of Abuse

Posted date: March 21, 2019in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, International Engagement, Press Releases, Reprisals Against Family Members of Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, Statements, TimeLine, UN, Women DetaineesNo Comments

21 March 2019 – Yesterday, the Bahraini Embassy in London published a string of tweets including the correspondence between the Director of Advocacy at the Bahrain Institute for Rights... Read more

BAHRAIN: Unfair Conviction of Human Rights Defenders’ Family Upheld in Reprisal Case

Posted date: February 25, 2019in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Casework, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, International Engagement, Press Releases, Reprisals Against Family Members of Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, TimeLine, UKNo Comments

25 February 2019– Today, Bahrain’s Court of Cassation upheld the three-year sentence against family members of human rights defender, Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, who have now exhausted all l... Read more

Detention of BIRD Director’s Family Members Deemed Illegal and “Acts of Reprisals” by UN

Posted date: January 10, 2019in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Casework, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, Opinions, Press Releases, Reprisals Against Family Members of Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, TimeLine, UNNo Comments

10 January 2019 – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has formally rebuked Bahrain for taking reprisals against family members of a prominent, London-based,... Read more

Rights Groups Urge the UN High Commissioner to Intervene in Mistreatment of Female Activists in Bahrain

Posted date: October 18, 2018in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Casework, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, International Engagement, Press Releases, Statements, TimeLine, UN, Women DetaineesNo Comments

18 October 2018 – Today, 9 NGOs including the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), wrote to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and UN Experts, urging them to publi... Read more

Female Detainees’ Response to the Statement Issued by the National Institute for Human Rights (NIHR)

Posted date: October 04, 2018in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Casework, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, International Engagement, Press Releases, Statements, TimeLine, Women DetaineesNo Comments

4 October 2018 – Yesterday, the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) received a phone call from Isa Town Prison. In this phone call, inmates Hajer Mansoor, Medina Ali and Najah... Read more

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