Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain

Mahdi Yusuf Ahmed Hasan Al-Moathin, a 16-year-old minor, school student and handball player, was arrested by Bahraini authorities on 8 March 2026 from his family home in Samaheej. During his detention, he has endured torture, religious insults, threats, deprivation of education, denial of family visits and access to legal counsel, and an unknowingly...

Mohamed Isa Abdulla Hasan was a 16-year-old minor and school student when Bahraini authorities arrested him without a warrant on 1 March 2026 while he was outside a grocery store in Nuwaidrat. During his detention, he has endured enforced disappearance, torture, coerced confession, denial of access to legal counsel and guardian during interrogation,...

Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) participated in the 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, taking place from 7 September to 9 October 2026.

During the session, the organization’s participation focused on a number of human rights issues in Bahrain, particularly the situ...

On 22 September 2026, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) delivered an intervention during the 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council under Item 4. The organization highlighted Bahrain’s continued targeting of political prisoners released under the 2024 royal amnesty by reinstating fines and threatening the...

On 22 September 2026, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) delivered an intervention during the 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council under Item 4. ADHRB highlighted Bahrain’s escalating use of nationality revocation to suppress dissent, including the revocation of 69 people’s nationality, and called for an...