ADHRB Weekly Newsletter #338
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** Bahrain
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** Members of the European Parliament Send Letters to King Hamad of Bahrain and High Representative Josep Borrell on Death Sentence of Mohamed Ramadhan and Hussain Moosa
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On 6 March 2020, 44 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) sent a letter to King Hamad bin Isa of Bahrain, and 45 MEPs sent a letter o the European Union Minister of Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell. Both letters requested urgent protection of the lives of two Bahraini torture survivors: Mohamed Ramadhan and Hussain Moosa. The letters express the MEP’s extreme worry over the unfair trial and process both men endured, as well as the torture they were subjected to at the hands of Bahraini authorities. Although Ramdhan and Moosa’s conviction on charges of killing a security officer came in the face of allegations of torture, Bahrain’s High Criminal Court of Appeals upheld and reconfirmed their death sentences on 8 January 2020. This decision largely ignored evidence, and again refused to take into consideration the force in which confessions were obtained.

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** Profile in Persecution
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** Fahdel Hasan Abdulnabi
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On 23 June 2018, Fahdel’s human rights were violated when he was arrested without a warrant, tortured and subjected to an unfair trial. At the time of Fahdel’s arrest, his three brothers were already convicted and imprisoned, and authorities were constantly raiding his house. At present, Fahdel remains in Jau Prison, where he has been imprisoned for three years.

The Special Security Force Command (SSFC), as well as riot police, commandos and officers in civilian clothing, arrested Fahdel without a warrant after they bumped into his car at a traffic light in the city of Sitra.

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** ADHRB at the UN
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Letter from Political Prisoner Ali Al-Hajee Read at the Human Rights Council
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On March 6, 2020, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) delivered an Oral Statement under Item 3′ General Debate. ADHRB drew attention to the poor prison conditions in Bahrain and there is a culture of impunity among state officials. A letter from Ali Al-Hajee, one of the political prisoners was also read during this intervention.

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** Letter from Political Prisoner Mohammad Mirza read at the Human Rights Council
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On March 6, 2020, an oral intervention was delivered at the 43rd Session of the Human Rights Council under Item 3’s General Debate. The intervention highlighted poor prison conditions in Bahrain and that there is ongoing religious discrimination, reprisals, impunity and police brutality. A letter from Mohammad Mirza was also read which highlighted how unfair trials are the means to which the government detain and imprison individuals that a critical of the government or the monarchy.

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** Around the Gulf
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** At HRC 43, Violations of Privacy Rights in the UAE
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On March 5, 2020, an oral intervention was delivered at the 43rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, under Item 3 in the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy. The intervention focused on the negative impact of cyber-surveillance on privacy rights in the United Arab Emirates.

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