Bahrain NGOs Commend WGAD Decisions on Bahrain Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), and the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) commend the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) for their decisions released today declaring an additional eight Bahraini prisoners of conscience[…]
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Jul
Jul
ADHRB and BIRD Cautiously Welcome Pardon of Nabeel Rajab Coming on the heels of Ebrahim Sharif’s re-arrest this Sunday, prominent human rights defender Nabeel Rajab was pardoned yesterday and released from prison due to “health reasons,” after serving four months of his six month sentence. While Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) and[…]
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Feb
Feb
Event Summary: Preventing the Next ISIS Panelists Charles Dunne (Freedom House), Mohamed al-Tajer (BHRO), Dr. Robert Herman (Freedom House), Frederic Wehrey (Carnegie) and Sarah Margon (HRW) discuss extremism in the GCC. 12 February 2015 – Washington, DC – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), with Freedom House, hosted an event on 11[…]
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Oct
Oct
NGOs Condemn Continued Detention of Nabeel Rajab 20 October 2014 – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) are extremely concerned over the continued detention of prominent human rights defender Nabeel Rajab. The aforementioned organizations condemn the prosecution[…]
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Oct
Oct
UK Strips Immunity from Prince Nasser on Allegations of Torture Americans for Democracy and Human Rights and Bahrain (ADHRB) and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) welcome the decision by the UK High Court to lift the immunity from Bahrain’s Prince Nasser Bin Hamad Al Khalifa for prosecution against torture allegations. The ruling came[…]
