On the 15th of January, Dr. Dr. Abduljalil al-Singace celebrated his 57th birthday. This is yet another birthday spent behind bars. He is a Bahraini human rights activist, engineer, and blogger serving a life sentence solely based on his activism. ...
On the 31st of October 2018, MEPStanislav Polčák (PPE) addressed the issue of media freedom and the EU Foreign policy in a parliamentary question to HR/VP Federica Mogherini and the EU Commission. On October 31st 2018, MEP Stanislav Polčák (PPE) issued a ...
On 4 January 2019, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) in cooperation with the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) and European Centre for Democracy and Human Rights (ECDHR), sent a letter to US Secretary of State ...
On the 31st of December, the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Federal Supreme Court upheld prominent human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor’s 10-year prison sentence. As a result of the rejection of Mansoor’s appeal, he will serve out his prison sentence in ...
31 December 2018 – Hours before the new year kicked in, Bahrain’s Court of Cassation, its court of last resort, denied prominent Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Rajab’s appeal and upheld his five-year prison sentence. Because of this decision, now ...
On December 12th, 2018 the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the annual report on the implementation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy where it welcomes the decision of the governments of Germany, Denmark and Finland to halt arms ...
On the 13th of December, MEP Ana Gomes sent a letter to HR/VP Federica Mogherini regarding Habib Ali Mubarak’s case. Habib Ali Mubarak is a 32-years-old Bahraini man who is currently serving, since November 2015, his 15 years prison sentence ...
