On September 23, the Committee to Protect Journalists joined 28 human rights organizations during the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly in urging all member states to address human rights concerns in Bahrain, including the ongoing arbitrary detention of journalists, human rights defenders, scholars, bloggers, and opposition leaders.

The letter included the case of Abduljalil Alsingace, an award-winning Bahraini academic, blogger, and human rights defender who has been arbitrarily detained since 2011. He began a hunger strike on July 8, 2021, after prison authorities confiscated his manuscript on Bahraini dialects of Arabic, which he spent four years researching and writing. Alsingace, who has a disability, has reportedly been tortured during his detention.

Read the full statement here.

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