ADHRB Weekly Newsletter #440
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** Bahrain
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** US-UK-Bahrain relations – when political calculations matter more than human rights
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“We shall continue on the path of peaceful resistance!”- Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, founder of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and former President of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), upon receiving his prison sentence for peacefully exercising his fundamental freedoms during the 2011 pro-democracy movement. Al-Khawaja is currently serving a life sentence.

Statements by U.S. and UK officials about the Bahraini monarchy’s improvements in its respect for human rights and civil liberties defies reason but balances perfectly based on political calculations. The handshaking ([link removed]) and warm words ([link removed]) with Bahrain’s dictators are made possible because a blind-eye has been turned to the monarchy’s legalization of systematic repression and human rights violations. Even when confronted with evidence of unrelenting human rights abuses perpetrated by the Bahrain government ([link removed]) , the U.S ([link removed]) . and UK governments continue to ignore the situation. The political reforms enacted
by the Bahraini government – empty of any real checks on its ability to violate and abuse its own people – are in reality, just enough cover to allow the US and UK to continue its business-as-usual with the dictators in Bahrain.

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** Profile in Persecution
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** Mohamed, Muqtada, and Muntadher Jaafar AlKuwaiti
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Mohamed, Muqtada, and Muntadher AlKuwaiti are three young brothers who were only between 14 and 15 years old when they were arrested in 2021. They suffered various violations for months considering their young age and have been sentenced to a year in prison. They are currently serving their sentence at a center for orphans and children of unknown parents.

The AlKuwaiti brothers were summoned for the first time in June 2021. On the evening of 15 June 2021, the father received a call from Sitra police station asking them to come to the station the next day. When they arrived with their father, he was denied the chance to enter with them to the interrogation room. The children were asked to enter the interrogation room individually without the presence of their father. They were released after around 6 hours of questioning regarding participation in demonstrations and were asked to come again the following day to be presented before the PPO, which ordered their subjection to security monitoring for 6 months.


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