ADHRB raises the Spread of Culture of Impunity in Bahrain at the Human Rights Council

  On 10 March, ADHRB has delivered an oral intervention at the United Nation Human Rights Council session 46 during interactive debate under item 3. Madam President- We would like to thank the mandates of the Special Procedures for their work; and raise concerns about poor conditions in Bahraini prisons.  as well as ongoing religious[…]

ADHRB Participates in US Global Magnitsky Submissions

Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) was a participant in a consortium of 23 human rights organizations led by Human Rights First that also includes several other IFEX members that submitted case files aimed at applying sanctions to over a dozen individuals or entities by the United States government under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights[…]

Executive Director Criticizes Systematic Religious Discrimination in Bahrain

Bahrain has recently launched an international “religious tolerance” campaign that’s included a range of PR moves, such as the king publishing op-eds in US newspapers and sending his son, Royal Guard Commander Sheikh Nasser Al Khalifa, to the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles to formally launch the new “Bahrain Declaration of[…]

ADHRB calls for US to suspend Bahraini prince’s diplomatic visa

1 November 2017 – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) submitted open letters calling on the United States Government to suspend the issuance of diplomatic visas for Bahrain’s Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa pending a full review of his rights record by the Department of State and the Department of Defense. Sheikh[…]