How a Grad Student Found Spyware That Could Control Anybody’s iPhone from Anywhere in the World

Arab Gulf States: Attempts to Silence 140 Characters

Nabeel Rajab’s Unlawful Detention Continues: Trial Postponed, Investigations Reopened – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain

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Who Is a Sunni?: Chechnya Islamic Conference Opens Window on Intra-Faith Rivalry – Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington

See also James Dorsey’s Fighting for the Soul of Islam:A Battle of the Paymasters
See also Robert Fisk’s ‘For the first time, Saudi Arabia is being attacked by both Sunni and Shia leaders’
and Brian Whitaker’s ‘Robert Fisk and the Russian war on salafism’

Bahrain NGOs Condemn Reprisals against HRDs for UN Engagement – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain

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The Political Economy of Sectarianism in the Gulf

‘…Gulf governments can frighten their populations into accepting the political status quo.’

Shia Rights Watch Updates

See SRW updates to the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor International Religious Freedom 2015 Report, which the Bureau released on 10.8.16

ADHRB Weekly: Independent and Impartial Investigation Needed into the Death and Alleged Torture of Detainee

ADHRB Weekly: Further Repression of Freedom of Association – Bahrain Dissolves Al-Wefaq, the Largest Political Society in the Country

ADHRB Weekly: An Overview of ADHRB Engagement at the 32nd Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council