On 19 September 2025, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) delivered an intervention during the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, under the General Debate of Item 3. ADHRB drew the Council’s attention to the ongoing suppression of fundamental freedoms in Bahrain, with a particular focus on press freedom.[…]
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Sep
The Bahrain Press Association recently published its semi-annual report on freedom of expression and press freedom within the country. This report documents how, since the beginning of 2025, there have already been many cases of violation of these freedoms affecting activists and dissidents within the country. Moreover, these incidents were particularly concentrated in the Ashura[…]
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21 November 2017 – Fifteen rights groups have today written to 11 states and the European Union calling for action ahead of the conclusion of Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Rajab’s appeal against his two-year sentence for stating that Bahrain bars reporters and human rights workers from entry into the country. In the letters, which[…]
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Nov
Nov
On 23 October 2017, Omani authorities released the Deputy Editor of the recently closed Azamn newspaper, Yousef Al-Haj, from prison after he spent over a year behind bars due to comments made in Azamn. As reported by the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR), al-Haj was originally arrested in August 2016, along with two colleagues,[…]
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3 May 2016 – Today marks the United Nation’s 23rd World Press Freedom Day, which assesses the state of freedom of the press around the world and commemorates those journalists attacked, imprisoned, and tortured for their work. On this day, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) honors those journalists in Bahrain who[…]
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