Community Scoop » Bahrain: Punitive Measures Against Detainee Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja May Amount To Slow Killing
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In December, several human rights groups wrote a letter to the incoming Biden administration requesting changes in U.S. foreign policy to Bahrain. 18 organizations, including Americans for Democracy and Human Rights and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, provided a blueprint on how to mitigate violence in Bahrain. According to Al Jazeera, the letter references Bahrain’s peaceful 2011 Arab Spring uprising, where thousands of protestors demanded democratic reform. However, the movement was quickly suppressed by the oppressive Al Khalifa regime in a “barrage of human rights viol...