ADHRB at HRC58 Urges Bahrain to Free Elderly Activists Jailed for Cooperating with the UN

Bahrain: BCHR Side Event on Human Rights in Bahrain at the 58th Session of the UN Human Rights Council

Date: 24th March 2025 Organiser: Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) Moderator: Deewanshi Vats, Research, Advocacy, and Communications Assistant, BCHR On 24th March 2025, during the 58th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) hosted a side event to address the human rights crisis in Bahrain. The discussion, moderated by Deewanshi Vats, brought together human rights defenders, advocacy experts, and d…

ADHRB at HRC58 Urges Bahrain to Free Elderly Activists Jailed for Cooperating with the UN

On March 21, 2025, Americans for Democracy and human rights in Bahrain delivered an intervention during the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council. In its intervention under Item 5, ADHRB drew the Council’s attention to the ongoing detention and mistreatment of Bahrain’s prominent elderly human rights defenders, imprisoned since 2011 for their activism and cooperation with UN mechanisms. We draw the Council’s attention to the ongoing detent…