Category: Alwadaei Family

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

ADHRB, BIRD and ECDHR Condemn the NIHR’s Whitewashing of Human Rights Abuses in Bahraini Prisons

Posted date: October 02, 2018in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Freedom from Torture, Human Rights Defenders, Najah Ahmed Yousif, Press Releases, TimeLine, Women DetaineesNo Comments

2 October 2018 – Yesterday, the Bahrain National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) issued a statement denying the allegations of mistreatment reported by three women in Bahrain’s Isa Town... Read more

BAHRAIN: Further Retaliation Against Female Political Prisoner Following UN Secretary General’s Report

Posted date: September 19, 2018in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Casework, Ebtisam Al-Sayegh, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, International Engagement, Najah Ahmed Yousif, Press Releases, Statements, TimeLine, UK, UN, Women DetaineesNo Comments

19 September 2018 – On 16 September, female political prisoner Hajer Mansoor Hassan, mother-in-law of UK-based activist Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, was subjected to assault and retaliation,... Read more

Major UN Report Warns of “Ongoing Trend of Harassment and Intimidation” Against Human Rights Defenders in Bahrain, including family of BIRD’s Director

Posted date: September 12, 2018in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Casework, Ebtisam Al-Sayegh, International Engagement, Nabeel Rajab, News, Press Releases, TimeLine, UNNo Comments

12 September 2018 – Today, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published its 9th annual report by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres, which details t... Read more

Reprisals Against Bahraini Female Prisoner Escalate, as Her Son-in-Law Sayed Alwadaei Engages With the UN and the UK Parliament

Posted date: July 13, 2018in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Case Studies, Casework, EUP, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, International Engagement, News, Press Releases, TimeLine, UK, UN, Women DetaineesNo Comments

13 July 2018 – On 5 July, Bahraini female political prisoner, Hajer Mansoor, was subjected to further threats and reprisals by Major Maryam Albardoli, the head of Isa Town Prison Centr... Read more

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