Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) is seeking creative, organized, passionate, and hard-working applicants for a full-time six-month Advocacy internship beginning in January or February 2020 and based in Sofia, Bulgaria. We are happy to work with students seeking academic course credit for their work. This is a remote, office-less, and unpaid[…]
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Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) is seeking creative, organized, passionate, and hard-working applicants for a full-time six-month Advocacy internship beginning in January or February 2020 and based in Vienna, Austria. We are happy to work with students seeking academic course credit for their work. This is a remote, office-less, and unpaid[…]
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7 November 2019 – Today, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) published an Opinion on the case of Abbas al-Hassan, a Saudi man who was arrested in 2013 and executed on 23 April 2019. The WGAD found his detention to have been arbitrary and unlawful, in violation of his right to a[…]
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Salah Saeed AlHammar is a 26-year-old Bahraini citizen, who was arbitrarily detained, tortured, and later placed in solitary confinement after participating in a hunger strike to protest the poor prison conditions. Salah remains imprisoned at Jau Prison. In mid-December 2011, officials arrested Salah in the street without providing a warrant. Salah was charged with illegal[…]
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6 November 2019 – Yesterday, Seán Crowe T.D. asked Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney if Ireland will take a leadership role against the human rights violations in Bahrain in the United Nations Human Rights Council, particularly since Minister Coveney has previously noted human rights in Bahrain is a priority for Ireland. Mr. Crowe also inquired[…]
