PRESS RELEASE: Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain Joins Women’s March Global Campaign to End Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain joins Women’s March Global Campaign to End Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia   Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain and their Coalition partners call for an end to arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the immediate release of Saudi activists World |[…]

Profiles in Prosecution: Adel Abdulwahed Ebrahim

Adel Abdulwahed Ebrahim, a 20 year-old citizen of Bahrain, was coerced into turning himself into authorities on 21 September 2018. He was detained without due process, tortured by Bahraini authorities, and is charged with crimes he maintains he did not commit. In addition, Adel has been denied medical treatment for the injuries he sustained from[…]

Participants in the Bahrain International Airshow 2018 should repudiate the kingdom’s human rights abuses

14 November 2018 – Today is the first day of the Bahrain International Airshow (BIAS) which runs until Friday. We at Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) are concerned by the participation of a number of companies in the airshow, which may amount to implicit support for the Bahraini government. The government[…]

Special Procedures Publish Joint Communication Sent to Saudi Arabia on Women’s and Human Rights Defenders

From June through August 2018, United Nations (UN) Special Procedures sent five separate joint communications to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, expressing concerns over a myriad of human rights violations ranging from the targeting of women’s and human rights defenders, reprisals, the conflict in Yemen, arbitrary detention and more. This blog series highlights these joint[…]

Oman Detains Two Activists as Sultanate Continues to Silence Critics

In October, Oman’s Internal Security Service (ISS) detained two activists in an apparent attempt to silence them. Journalist Sultan Al-Maktoumi was detained 23 October 2018; it was presumed that he was detained to control his criticism ahead of Israel’s Prime Minister’s visit to Oman a few days later. Just a few days later, online activist[…]