*** On Saturday 27 July 2019, the Government of Bahrain executed 25-year-old Ali AlArab and 24-year-old Ahmed AlMalali, along with a third individual. Read ADHRB’s statement on the executions here. *** On 26 July 2019, Agnes Callamard, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, issued a press release reiterating her calls for Bahrain[…]
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Wednesday 3 July 2019 – During the 41st session of the Human Rights Council, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) delivered an oral intervention during Item 5 of the General Debate. In the intervention, ADHRB raised concerns of the systematic and extensive humans rights violations that have been committed and are still[…]
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Nooh Abdulla Al Amroom was a 17-year-old student at the time of his initial arrest in Bahrain in 2015. He was released pending trial, but re-arrested a year later on separate charges. Since then, the Bahraini authorities have subjected him to torture and failed to provide him with adequate medical treatment for his teeth and[…]
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On 1 July 2019, within the 41st session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneve, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) made an oral statement during the Council’s Item 3 General Debate on Bahrain’s increasing implementation of mass trials to convict dissidents. And called on Bahrain to restore revoked nationalities, to[…]
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UPDATE: On 25 July 2019, the Human Rights Committee published its concluding observations on its review of the Netherlands’ ICCPR obligations, in which the Committee seems to reference Ali’s case: ” The Committee is, however, concerned about reports of forced returns of asylum seekers, whose application has been rejected, to . . . Bahrain, allegedly[…]
