ADHRB Weekly Newsletter #410
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** Bahrain
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** Consistent pressure on the French Government by the French Parliament over Bahrain’s troubling human rights record
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Justine Benin, Member of Parliament for Guadeloupe, questioned ([link removed]) the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, on his commitment to ensuring respect for human dignity and political freedom in Bahrain. Ms. Benin has drawn attention to the growing lack of respect for human rights in Bahrain, and the repression by the authorities of all opposition figures.

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** Profile in Persecution
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** Mustafa AbdulKarim Khatam
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Mustafa AbdulKarim Khatam, a Bahraini national, was 22 years old when he was arbitrarily arrested in 2013. He is currently held in Jau prison where he is being denied urgent medical treatment for his worsening condition after also being subjected to torture and ill-treatment on multiple occasions.

On 14 February 2013, Riot police, security police forces, Criminal Investigations Directorate officers, and helicopters surrounded the Karzakan area where Mustafa lived, and the roads for those entering and leaving the village were blocked. Mustafa was outside the house, on the coast with his friends, when they were surrounded, pursued, and arrested without an arrest warrant. Authorities did not even state the reason for the arrest. However, Bahrain TV later announced the arrest of a group of terrorists in possession of a rifle.

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** GCC in the Wire
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- Blinken speaks to Saudi minister, repeats U.S. call for rights progress ([link removed]) (Reuters)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud on Monday and repeated a call for progress on human rights.


- Saudi case against Twitter user may have its roots in US ([link removed]) (The Independent)
A Saudi humanitarian aid worker's anonymous Twitter account used for satire about Saudi Arabia's economy landed him in prison in the kingdom over three years ago.

- Kuwait's slow pace to end honour killings ([link removed]) (EU Reporter)
On 6 July, 2021, Kuwait's judiciary issued one of its most-anticipated decisions. The case concerned the killing of Farah Hamzah Akbar, a 32-year-old Kuwaiti single mother of two. What made the case unnerving was not merely the brazen nature of the murder: the killer, Fahad Subhi Mohammed—a 30-year-old naturalized Kuwaiti—kidnapped Farah in broad daylight with her two young daughters in the car, and stabbed her in the chest multiple times in the highly-populated suburb of Kuwait called Sabah al-Salem before coolly driving to a hospital and dumping her body and her distraught children at the hospital entrance which was teeming with people. Rather, it was the tangible feeling that killing of women in Kuwait had now become a mundane occurrence. It was the realization that—despite a domestic violence law issued in 2020—Kuwait's courts had systematically failed to provide punishments of convicted murderers that were commensurate with the crimes. For women, waiting for justice to be served has
been like waiting for Godot, writes Fay El-Jeaan, a volunteer with Abolish 153.



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