Newsletter #144

Bahrain State Department Commemorates 5th Anniversary by Calling for More Reforms On 17 February, the US Department of State (DoS) issued a statement commemorating the fifth anniversary of Bahrain’s pro-democracy uprising in 2011. The statement highlights ongoing US concerns regarding “limitations on peaceful assembly, political activism, and the criminalization of freedom of expression” since the[…]

Newsletter #143

Bahrain | Updates from the Ground | News & Opinion UN Complaint Program Bahrain Bahrain’s five-year plan of repression On the fifth anniversary of Bahrain’s pro-democracy uprising, ADHRB’s Kate Kizer and Michael Payne describe how the government has gradually institutionalized the methods of violence and intimidation that it first used to suppress demonstrations in February 2011. Moreover, they argue[…]

Newsletter #141

Bahrain | Updates from the Ground | News & Opinion Saudi Arabia | Other Gulf States | UN Complaint Program Bahrain Bahrain’s Miscarriage of Justice in Sentencing 57 Jau Prisoners On Monday, 25 January 2016, Bahrain’s public prosecutor announced that a court had sentenced 57 men to additional 15-year jail terms for their alleged involvement in the Jau Prison[…]

Newsletter #140

Bahrain | Updates from the Ground | News & Opinion Saudi Arabia | Other Gulf States | UN Complaint Program   Bahrain Bahrain Must Lift Nabeel Rajab’s Travel Ban, Say 27 NGOs 21 January 2016 – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain joined a group of 27 NGOs to call upon Bahraini king Hamad bin[…]