As Universal Periodic Review and elections approach, NGOs call for prisoners of conscience to be released

 At an event on 28 September 2022 during the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 51^st session, human rights NGOs called for UN member states to help secure the immediate release of detained human rights defenders and other prisoners of conscience in Bahrain. The event was organised by Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) and the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR).

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ADHRB raises the issue of systemic reprisal in Bahrain in its intervention under item 5 at HRC51

ADHRB urges Bahrain to end its use of mercenaries to violate human rights

On 30 September, ADHRB has delivered an oral intervention at the United Nation Human Rights Council session 51 under item 6, during the General debate. ADHRB demands that Bahrain be held accountable for its failure to implement past UPR recommendations.

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ADHRB urges the HRC to exert pressure on Bahrain to disclose the fate of political prisoners

On 27 September, ADHRB has delivered an oral intervention at the United Nation Human Rights Council session 51 under item 4, during the General debate. ADHRB urges the HRC to exert pressure on Bahrain to disclose the fate of political prisoners.

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ADHRB demands the respect of the Yemeni people’s right to self-determination

On 21 September, ADHRB has delivered an oral intervention at the United Nation Human Rights Council session 51 under item 3, during the General debate. ADHRB demands the respect of the Yemeni people’s right to self-determination.

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At HRC51, ADHRB calls for the release of Ahmed Jaafar Ali and other political prisoners in Bahrain

On 21 September, ADHRB has delivered an oral intervention at the United Nation Human Rights Council session 51 under item 3, during the General debate. ADHRB calls for the release of Ahmed Jaafar Ali and other political prisoners in Bahrain.

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Hussain Ali Ayyad

Hussain Ali Ayyad was 19 years old, still a student from AlShakhoora, when officers from the Bahraini Ministry of Interior arrested him in 2017. He was tortured and sentenced in an unfair trial and is currently serving a lengthy sentence in Jau Prison.

On 27 February 2017, armed civilian officers and riot police raided Hussain’s house at 3 a.m. in a barbaric manner by breaking down the door of the house with no arrest warrant. They proceeded to intimidate his family, interrogating and threatening his little brother and father, who was taken to the living room at gunpoint. Hussain was arrested outside the house, and he called his family later on to inform them that he was arrested and tortured.

Prior to his arrest, Hussain was summoned by the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) by phone. He was interrogated for three hours, where he was threatened and pressured that he would not be released until he signed a confession stating that he received training on the use of weapons in Saudi Arabia by an officer from Bahrain Defense Force since the only country Hussain had traveled to was Saudi Arabia. Hussain ended up signing the confession to be released.

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