April 29, 2021 at 3:48 pm
The fate of four Yemeni journalists is in the hands of US President Joe Biden, Dr Khalid Ibrahim and Dr Ikram Ais have told me as they explained the details of their campaign for their release. Ibrahim is the Executive Director of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights, while Ais is Co-Director of Activism at the Harvard Law School s Advocates for Human Rights. They have sent a letter to Biden urging him to call for the immediate release of Abdul Khaleq Amran, Akram Al-Walidi, Al-Hareth Humaid and Tawfiq Al-Mansouri who are facing a death sentence in Houthi-controlled Yemen.
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Protesters grieve after the death of a political prisoner who had not received treatment in jail, in Sanabis, west of the capital Manama, Bahrain, 17 March 2017, Sayed Baqer AlKamel/NurPhoto via Getty Images An ongoing outbreak of Covid-19 in Bahrain s prisons has underscored the urgent need to release all of the country s political prisoners.
This statement was originally published on gc4hr.org on 19 April 2021.
While welcoming the release of some prisoners of conscience in Bahrain as Ramadan begins, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) calls on the authorities to release all human rights defenders, activists and protesters who are in prison in violation of their rights to freedom of expression and assembly.
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