ADHRB Weekly Newsletter #421
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** Bahrain
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** Senate Bill Calls for Unconditional Release of Bahraini Political Prisoners, Report on U.S. State Department’s Efforts to Secure their Release
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A bill released yesterday by the Senate Appropriations Committee directly addresses ongoing human rights violations by the Government of Bahrain.
“Chairman Christopher Coons and the Senate Appropriations Committee have shed a bright light on the brutality and inhumanity of the Government of Bahrain against its own people,” said Husain Abdulla, executive director of Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain. The report accompanying the Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman’s note on the FY 2022 State Foreign Operations Bill highlights the appalling human rights situation in Bahrain: The Committee remains concerned about reports of the widespread use of arbitrary detention, torture, due process violations, and unfair trials in Bahrain, and notes that the suppression of peaceful dissent and freedom of expression may negatively impact the stability of Bahrain. No later than 60 days after enactment of the law, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the Appropriations Committees, which may be in classified form if necessary, detailing the efforts made on behalf of political prisoners in Bahrain and the response of the
Government of Bahrain.
Detainees.—… The Committee also calls for the immediate and unconditional release of those imprisoned for peaceful expression, association, and assembly, including members of opposition parties, civil society activists, and independent journalists, in . Bahrain… and other countries where fundamental rights are denied.
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** Profile in Persecution
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** Sayed Adnan MajedHashem
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Sayed Adnan Majed Hashem was a 22-year-old worker at Al-Manhal water factory when he was arrested in October 2018, for the fourth time in his life, from a house in AlDair. Since his detention, Sayed Adnan has suffered physical and psychological torture, as well as religious discrimination at the hands of the Bahraini authorities. He remains at Jau Prison, where he is completing a sentence amounting to almost three decades.
Sayed Adnan was arrested for the first time in 2014 as he was returning from Etehad AlReef Club Stadium in the Shahrakan area with a group of players from the Abu Quwa team after their victory in the Youth Centers Championship. They were in a bus and were honking the horn in celebration of their victory when the security forces stopped and arrested them because their honking was allegedly illegal. The second time that Sayed Adnan was arrested was in mid-September of 2015 when he was visiting his grandfather’s house in Al-Daih. On that day, there were political demonstrations and Sayed Adnan was chased after and arrested by security forces. He was detained for around a month and a half before being released without any judgement being issued against him.
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** GCC in the Wire
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Ex-Saudi official calls crown prince a ‘psychopath’ who wanted to assassinate the king ([link removed]) (Los Angeles Times)
A former senior Saudi security official who helped oversee joint counterterrorism efforts with the U.S. alleged in an interview with “60 Minutes” that the kingdom’s crown prince once spoke of killing a sitting Saudi monarch before his own father was crowned king.
Newcastle takeover is done and dusted but spotlight should stay on human rights ([link removed]) (The Guardian)
Hang on. What’s this? Another article about human rights? Didn’t we solve that last week? People said “questions need to be asked”. Some went even further, suggesting they should be serious questions. Once you’ve said we must not sweep the abuse of the rights of humans under the carpet surely then it’s OK to move on and speculate over whether Jamaal Lascelles’s long-term future is under threat from the impending arrival of James Tarkowski. Human rights is too vague a term. It’s easy to say out loud you care about it. We like humans. And we like rights. It feels obvious that everyone cares about both.
Biden struggles to rein in Saudi Arabia amid human rights concerns ([link removed]) (The Hill)
President Biden came into office calling Saudi Arabia a "pariah" and promising to put human rights at the center of his foreign policy. But advocates and regional experts say the president has failed to impose serious costs on Riyadh, while emboldening the kingdom's day-to-day ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, to act with impunity when it comes to respecting human rights, including the targeting of dissidents.
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