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A new report from Bahrain Center for Human Rights reviews the country's national human rights bodies, and examines their effectiveness and independence in addressing human rights violations and ending the culture of impunity.
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Former US Ambassador to Bahrain Sam Zakhem has lauded the legislative and legal measures taken by Bahrain to ensure human rights.
Zakhem hailed Bahrain for the establishment of Ombudsman at the Ministry of Interior and the Special Investigation at the Office of the Public Prosecutor, legal reforms such as raising the juvenile age to eighteen, alternative sentencing, and de-emphasising the role of confessions as evidence of guilt.
In an opinion piece published in the US “National Interest” magazine, on “How Bahrain Is Improving its Human Rights Record”, Zakhem urged the American officials to ‘re-balance their approach to human rights and that not all protestors are high-minded Jeffersonians.
United Nations Special Rapporteurs and national governments
Re:
Your Excellencies,
We the undersigned, representing civil society organisations from around the world, write to bring to your urgent attention the continued detention of human rights defender Abdul-Hadi Abdulla Hubail al-Khawaja. As you may be aware, al-Khawaja, who is a dual Bahraini-Danish citizen, is currently serving a life sentence for his peaceful human rights activities. As he marks his 10th
year in prison and commemorates his 60th birthday on 5 April 2021, we urge the United Nations through its Secretary General, governments around the world and representatives of the diplomatic community to urgently call on Bahraini authorities to release him immediately and unconditionally.
A Bahraini girl holds up a placard with a portrait of jailed human rights activist Abdul-Hadi al-Khawaja, that reads in Arabic “Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, will and determination, hunger strike”, during an anti-government protest in the village of Jannusan, 5 September 2014, MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH/AFP via Getty Images IFEX joins civil society organisations from around the world in urging the UN, governments, and the diplomatic community to urgently call on Bahraini authorities to release human rights defender Abdul-Hadi al-Khawaja.
To: United Nations Secretary General and diplomatic Missions
United Nations Special Rapporteurs/Targeted Governments
Re: Urgent call to release Abdul-Hadi al-Khawaja on his 60
th birthday and 10