This week, ADHRB caught up with Bahraini human rights lawyer, Mohamed al-Tajer, during his trip to Washington, D.C. to discuss the situation in Bahrain. In your capacity as a human rights lawyer, can you talk about your work in Bahrain? As lawyers, we thought that the worst situation was the martial law in 2011 and[…]
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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[…]
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BAHRAIN WEEK 2015 – Schedule of Events Monday, February 9th Coffee Chat w/Mohamed al-Tajer: Human Rights Attorney from Bahrain When: 4 PM Where: Georgetown University Law Center, Hotung 2000 Join us for a casual conversation on human rights and the judicial process in Bahrain with Mohamed al-Tajer. Mr. al-Tajer, a human rights attorney, was arrested by[…]
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Please join Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain and Freedom House for:
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More than four years since the Bahrain government’s brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, arbitrary arrests, injuries to protesters and politically motivated prison sentences continue. Numerous Bahrainis remain behind bars today, including hundreds of prisoners of conscience. Every month, ADHRB, BIRD and BCHR ask all defenders of human rights to take part in highlighting each of[…]
