ADHRB Weekly Newsletter #310
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** Bahrain
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** ADHRB Responds to Bahraini Embassy Statement on the Execution of Ali AlArab and Ahmed AlMalali
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On 27 July 2019, the Bahraini government executed Ali AlArab and Ahmed AlMalali, two torture victims who were convicted in an unfair trial. The executions took place amid an international outcry against the measure. Members of Congress, including Senator Bob Menendez, the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission co-chairs, and Representative Ro Khanna, as well Members of the European Parliament, French Parliament, and Agnes Callamard, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions voiced their opposition to AlArab and AlMalalil’s sentences. In response to the calls to halt their executions, the Bahraini Embassy in Washington, DC published a statement defending the right of the Bahraini government to carry out these executions. In the statement, Bahrain claimed that the imposition of the death penalty adheres to United Nations (UN) standards. Hours later, Bahrain carried out the executions. ADHRB condemns these executions, particularly the misapplication of
international law and UN standards to the Government’s actions.

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** New and Notable
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** Profile in Persecution: Ahmed Hasan Kadhem ([link removed])

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** Around the Gulf
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** UAE Lawyer Mohamed al-Roken Faces Seventh Year Arbitrarily Imprisoned
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Mohamed al-Roken is a prominent lawyer in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He was detained on 17 July 2012 while on his way to a police station and held incommunicadofor months. Al-Roken’s trial began in March 2013, where he was tried with 93 other defendants, and ultimately convicted and sentenced to 10 year’s imprisonment on 3 July 2013. This mass trial became known as the UAE 94, and was part of a crackdown on human rights leaders, activists, academics, and human rights lawyers. Earlier this month marked the seventh year of al-Roken’s detention.

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** New and Notable

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** Kuwait’s Bidoon Targeted by Security Officials ([link removed])
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