We found 624 results for “Bahrain”.
Letter
Letter to President Obama on Last 100 Days in Office
October 13, 2016
October 13, 2016 The Honorable Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: Right now, in…
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Washington Week on Human Rights: October 11, 2016
October 11, 2016
Top Items United Nations Last week the U.N. Security Council voted to elect former prime minister of Portugal António Guterres as the next Secretary-General of the United…
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U.S. Government Urged to Link F-16 Sales to Bahrain to Release of Prominent Human Rights Defender
October 5, 2016
Washington, D.C. – Human Rights First today urged the U.S. government to link the proposed sale of F-16 fighter jets to Bahrain to the acquittal of jailed Bahraini human rights defender…
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Washington Week on Human Rights: October 3, 2016
October 3, 2016
Top Items Refugee Resettlement The Obama Administration has reached its refugee resettlement goal for Fiscal Year (FY) 2016, which ended on Friday. Early reports indicate that…
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Washington Week on Human Rights: September 26, 2016
September 26, 2016
Top Items Global Refugee Crisis On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Immigration and National Interest Subcommittee will hold a hearing to examine the administration’s FY2017 refugee…
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Meet Bahrain’s Awful Judges
September 20, 2016
This is a cross-post from the Huffington Post. In a Bahrain court yesterday Judge Ebrahim Al Zayed presided over a brief, few-minute hearing in the…
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Human Rights First’s Dooley Testifies on Bahrain before Congressional Committee
September 9, 2016
Washington, D.C.—In testimony today before the U.S. Congress’s Tom Lantos Commission on Human Rights, Human Rights First’s Brian Dooley will urge U.S. policymakers to take action to…
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Washington Week on Human Rights: September 6, 2016
September 6, 2016
Top Items Congress This month in New York City world leaders will attend two major summits designed to address the ongoing global refugee crisis, the…
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Human Rights First Urges U.S. Action on Bahrain Following Nabeel Rajab Case Developments
September 6, 2016
Washington, D.C.—Following this weekend’s adjournment in the ongoing case against prominent human rights defender Nabeel Rajab, Human Rights First urged the Bahraini regime to drop…
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Bahrain Moves to Restrict Digital Journalism
August 31, 2016
By Jude Ali The Rio Olympics are the perfect example of the dwindling power of traditional media and the growing demand for digital journalism. While…
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Apple, Shaggy, and Hacks in the Gulf
August 30, 2016
By Brian Dooley This blog is cross-posted from the Huffington Post. Apple iPhone’s major security scare last week drew attention not only to the importance of not clicking on…
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Bahrain’s Truth Will Out
August 26, 2016
By Brian Dooley This blog is a cross post from the Huffington Post. Here we go again—there’s a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva in…