tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75119305304008466952024-03-13T04:40:19.982+03:00Bahrain Center for Human RightsThe BlogBAHRAIN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01457943964785689558noreply@blogger.comBlogger514125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7511930530400846695.post-69469383952305246862013-09-30T20:26:00.001+03:002013-10-13T11:39:33.938+03:00Bahrain Court Sentences 50 Defendants Under Terrorism Law, and Reduces Sentence For Two Police Officers Convicted of Torturing Detainee to Death and more: Newsletter<div class="container" style="width: 960px;background-color: #FFF;margin: 0 auto"> <div class="header" style="background-color: #FFF"><a href="#"></a><a href="#"></a><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/1f88bd5d1/www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/BCHR%20Logo2.png" width="850" hspace="20" /><a href="#"></a><a href="#"></a><a href="#"></a> <!-- end .header --></div> <div class="sidebar1" style="float: left;width: 180px;background-color: #f7f7f7;padding-bottom: 10px"> <ul class="nav" style="padding: 0;margin: 0;border: 5;border-color: #000;list-style: none;border-top: 1px solid #666;margin-bottom: 15px"><li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"> <div align="center">Issue No. 65 </div> </li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"> <div align="center">30 September 2013 </div> </li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><a href="#newssummary" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF"> <strong>News Summary</strong></a></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#impunity" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">A Culture of Impunity</a></strong></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#trials" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">Trials & Prison Sentences</a></strong></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#other" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">NGO & Other News</a></strong></li> </ul><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, registered with the Bahraini Ministry of Labor and Social Services since 2002.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">Despite an order by the authorities in November 2004 to close, the BCHR continues to operate after gaining a wide internal and external support for its struggle to promote human rights in Bahrain.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">For more information, please visit our website:</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/7935b75356/69a31f0425/35937e125e">www.bahrainrights.org</a></p> <!-- end .sidebar1 --></div> <div class="content" style="padding: 10px 0;width: 780px;float: left"> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#E2422D" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="impunity" id="impunity2"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">News Summary</span></h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">The authorities in Bahrain escalated their crackdown on peaceful protesters and activists. Yesterday, the court sentenced 50 political detainees, including political activists and a human rights defender, to total of more than 400 years' imprisonment and upheld the sentence of 10 years' imprisonment against two children. All the sentences were delivered under the internationally criticised and vague terrorism law. <br /> At the same time, the authorities continued their policy of impunity towards the security forces. The court reduced the sentences of two police officers who tortured a detainee to death from 10 years', to 2 years' imprisonment.<br /> A US citizen was also sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment and was reportedly subjected to torture and ill-treatment in custody.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Read below for details on these stories and more.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#E2422D" valign="center" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 class="h2" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF"><a name="impunity" id="impunity"></a>A Culture of Impunity</h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/najitor.jpg?itok=Ov63I_K7" name="" width="317" height="273" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /><strong>Bahrain Court Sentences 50 Defendants Under Terrorism Law and Reduces Sentence For Tow Police Officers Convicted of Torturing Detainee to Death</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">The court sentenced political detainees, including activists and an human rights defender, to total of more than 400 years' imprisonment and upheld the sentence of 10 years' imprisonement against two children. All the sentences were delivered under the internationally criticized and vague terrorism law. The court also reduced the sentences of two police officers who tortured a detainee to death from 10 years' to 2 years' imprisonment.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/7935b75356/69a31f0425/c711a0b4e6">Link to the full article</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Public%20Prosecution%20Building.jpg?itok=HdCzLlVD" name="" width="317" height="273" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /><strong>The Fourth Criminal Court: A Court Not Serving Justice and Used as a Tool for Political Vegeance</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">This report was prepared following observations and analysis of the cases investigated by the Fourth High Criminal Court from 10 July until 10 September 2013. The report is based on both the testimonies of the defense in the various cases looked into by the aforementioned Court, and the observations of the representatives of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights who attended a selection of the court sessions.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/7935b75356/69a31f0425/5f37db35dd">Link to the full article</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Haider Abdu Rasool website.jpg?itok=hO4th3bl" name="" width="317" height="273" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /><strong>Arrest of a Victim Who Sought Justice Against Abusive Policeman at Court</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">On 22 Sep, Haider AbduRasool was arrested during a dawn house raid on his home in the village of Aali. On 24 Sep the public prosecution ordered his detention for 60 days under the counter-terrorism law. Last December, AbdulRasool spoke to the media and went to court to file charges against a police officer who slapped him in the face while AbdulRasool was carrying a child in his arms. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/7935b75356/69a31f0425/5065862567">Link to the full article</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/ACAT.png?itok=9VLqjLDW" name="" width="330" height="300" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /><strong>The Future Arab Human Rights Court To Be Hosted In A Country </strong><strong>Where Government Practices Torture</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">On September 29, Naji Fateel, a Bahraini blogger and human rights activist who has been tortured by the local security forces, will receive court verdict which could be a long term prison sentence. This is a cause for serious concern to the Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (ACAT), the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights, particularly considering the country's disastrous record on human rights.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/7935b75356/69a31f0425/5c204a3f56">Link to the full article</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#e10610" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="trials" id="trials"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">Trials and Prison Sentences</span></h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><strong><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/najitor.jpg?itok=Ov63I_K7" alt="img" width="350" height="233" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /></strong><strong>Bahrain- Verdict expected on 29 September in case of Human Rights Defender Naji Fateel by court that fails to live up to fair trial standard</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">The Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) and the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) express concern over the expected verdict which will be announced by the 4th Criminal Court on 29 September 2013, in the case of detained human rights defender Naji Fateel along with another 49 citizens. Reliable reports confirmed from Bahrain that the court fails to live up to fair trial standards.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/7935b75356/69a31f0425/72a713699a">Link to the full article</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><strong><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/taqi%20abdulla%202_0.jpg?itok=CPDLvkgi" alt="img" width="363" height="245" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />US Citizen Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">The BCHR is deeply concerned over the news that Taqi Al-Maidan, (twenty-five years old) who is an American citizen - was sentenced today to ten years in prison. Yousif Abdul Redha (twenty-seven years old) and Ali Al-Bana (twenty-six years old), who are both Bahraini, were also sentenced to ten years on the same charges. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/7935b75356/69a31f0425/5a080481ca">Link to the full article</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#e10610" style="font-family: Garamond"><h1 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="other" id="other"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">NGO & Other News</span></h1></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/default_images/pic_default.png?itok=FGRyk057" alt="img" width="311" height="231" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>The 2013 Rafto Prize to Bahrain Centre for Human Rights</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">The 2013 Rafto Prize is awarded to the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights for their long and courageous fight for fundamental human rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of association in Bahrain. By awarding the Rafto Prize to BCHR, we turn the spotlight on the systematic violations of human rights in a region where abuse is too often met with silence from western governments.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/7935b75356/69a31f0425/0a70536c12">Link to the full article</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/amnesty_logo.png?itok=_b2oeJ5i" alt="img" width="311" height="231" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Amnesty Int'l: US national gets 10 years after unfair trial</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Taqi 'Abdallah al-Maydan, a 25 year-old US national, was sentenced on 24 September to 10 years' imprisonment after unfair trial. He was reportedly tortured following his arrest in October 2012 and was forced to sign a "confession". He was charged with "attempting to kill policemen", "burning an armoured police vehicle" and "illegal gathering and rioting".</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/7935b75356/69a31f0425/8faba29180">Link to the full article</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/freedomhouse.jpg?itok=BXAbzItJ" alt="img" width="311" height="231" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Freedom House: Bahrain's Crackdown on Dissent Continues: Political Opposition Figure Arrested</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Freedom House is concerned by reports that Khalil Marzouq, a former lawmaker and leading member of Al Wefaq, the main political opposition party in Bahrain, has been arrested and charged with inciting "terrorist crimes," allegedly in response to a speech he gave last week, and is expected to be held in custody for 30 dayspending further investigation. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/7935b75356/69a31f0425/c9d76a24b2">Link to the full article</a></p> </div> <div class="footer" 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RIGHTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01457943964785689558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7511930530400846695.post-63895926233949093012013-09-23T17:57:00.001+03:002013-10-13T11:39:12.989+03:00Freedom of Expression Under Attack: Weekly Newsletter<div class="container"> <div class="header"><a href="#"><a href="#"></a><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/1f88bd5d1/www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/BCHR%20Logo2.png" width="850" hspace="20" /></a><a href="#"><a href="#"></a><a href="#"></a></a> <!-- end .header --></div> <div class="sidebar1"> <ul class="nav"> <li></li> <li></li> <li> <div align="center">Issue No. 64 </div> </li> <li> <div align="center">23 September 2013 </div> </li> <li></li> <li></li> <li><a href="#newssummary"> <strong>News Summary</strong></a></li> <li><strong><a href="#impunity">A Culture of Impunity</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#trials">Trials & Prison Sentences</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#other">NGO & Other News</a></strong></li> </ul> <p align="justify">The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, registered with the Bahraini Ministry of Labor and Social Services since 2002.</p> <p align="justify">Despite an order by the authorities in November 2004 to close, the BCHR continues to operate after gaining a wide internal and external support for its struggle to promote human rights in Bahrain.</p> <p align="justify">For more information, please visit our website:</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/8c0358759a/69a31f0425/ced5e8586f">www.bahrainrights.org</a></p> <!-- end .sidebar1 --></div> <div class="content"> <table width="781" border="1"> <tr> <th bgcolor="#E2422D"><h2><a name="impunity" id="impunity2"></a><span class="h2">News Summary</span></h2></th> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p>The authorities continued to crack down on freedom of expression in Bahrain - this last week they arrested Khalil Al-Marzooq, who is the political assistant to the Secretary General of Al Wefaq, which is the largest opposition group in Bahrain. He will be held in detention for 30 days and investigated on allegations on incitement to commit terrorist crimes. In regards to the biased judicial system in Bahrain, the BCHR released a report on the Fourth Criminal Court, which has tried many of the cases involving political and human rights activists. The report concludes that in 95% of the examined cases, the defendants were denied access to a lawyer for all or part of their trial. In addition, the court refused to investigate serious allegations of torture.</p> <p>Read below for details on these stories and more.</p> <p> </p> <table width="781" border="1"> <tr> <th bgcolor="#E2422D" valign="center"><h2 class="h2"><a name="impunity" id="impunity"></a>A Culture of Impunity</h2></th> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Marzooq.png?itok=GtpAw0dE" name="" width="317" height="241" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" /><strong>Authorities Order Suppression of Political Activities and Freedom of Expression</strong></p> <p>The regime has recently arrested Khalil Al-Marzooq, the political assistant to the Secretary General of Al Wefaq National Islamic Society - the largest political society in Bahrain - and accused him of incitement to commit terrorist crimes; he will remain in custody for 30 days. </p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/8c0358759a/69a31f0425/f8593a33d9">Link to the full article</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Yousif%20Ali_0.jpg?itok=k_P7e-l3" name="" width="317" height="241" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" /><strong>Arbitrarily Arrested and Reportedly Tortured for False Confessions, Yousif Ali Faces Ongoing Violations</strong></p> <p>The BCHR recently documented the case of Yousif Ali Abdulla Yaqoob (31 years old) who was arbitrarily arrested on the 17th of August 2013 and charged with illegal gathering and rioting.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/8c0358759a/69a31f0425/1b742d6f45">Link to the full article</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Untitled1.png?itok=tAvryl-h" name="" width="317" height="241" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" /><strong>Urgent Appeal: The BCHR Demands The Immediate Release of Nadia Al</strong>i</p> <p>The BCHR is highly concerned regarding the wellbeing of political detainee Nadia Ali, who is held on charges of insulting a member of the security forces. Multiple indications have shown that Nadia has been tortured while in custody. </p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/8c0358759a/69a31f0425/205a38b0b5">Link to the full article</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Nasser%20and%20Khalid.jpg?itok=Y6N2jtkZ" name="" width="317" height="289" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" /><strong>On the Establishment of an Arab Court for Human Rights in Bahrain</strong></p> <p>The BCHR welcomes the idea of establishing an Arab court to prosecute human right violators. However, the BCHR is dismayed at the decision to host the permanent headquarters of the Arab Court in Bahrain, considering the notorious record that the government of Bahrain and the members of the ruling family, have in the field of human rights.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/8c0358759a/69a31f0425/88810df6f0">Link to the full article</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <table width="781" border="1"> <tr> <th bgcolor="#e10610"><h2><a name="trials" id="trials"></a><span class="h2">Trials and Prison Sentences</span></h2></th> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p><strong><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Public%20Prosecution%20Building.jpg?itok=HdCzLlVD" alt="img" width="363" height="297" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />The Fourth Criminal Court: A Court Not Serving Justice and Used as a Tool for Political Vengeance</strong></p> <p>This report was prepared following observations and analysis of the cases investigated by the Fourth High Criminal Court from 10 July until 10 September 2013. The report is based on both the testimonies of the defense in the various cases looked into by the aforementioned Court, and the observations of the representatives of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights who attended a selection of the court sessions. </p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/8c0358759a/69a31f0425/def00f2735">Link to the full report</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Screen%20Shot%202013-09-23%20at%207.47.17%20AM.png?itok=AjOl7OYZ" alt="img" width="337" height="216" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />Court Orders Release of Ali Hassan, Changes Its Verdict After Al-Naeem Police Station Refuses to Release Him: Prisoner Still Behind Bars</strong></p> <p>The BCHR is seriously concerned over the health and wellbeing of Ali Hassan Ahmed Issa from Maameer, who is mentally challenged and suffers from epilepsy, and was arrested on the 11 August 2013.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/8c0358759a/69a31f0425/7b7cac1f6e">Link to the full article</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/activists_0.jpg?itok=LR2u4ro8" alt="img" width="337" height="216" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />GCHR & BCHR Express Their Grave Concern Over the Continued Attacks and Harassment of Bahraini Rights Defenders</strong></p> <p>The Gulf Center for Human Rights and the Bahrain Center for Human Rights express their grave concern for Hussain Ali Abdul Nabi, Zainab Al-Khawaja, and Naji Fateel.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/8c0358759a/69a31f0425/a855ed3975">Link to the full article</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <table width="781" border="1"> <tr> <th bgcolor="#e10610"><h1><a name="other" id="other"></a><span class="h2">NGO & Other News</span></h1></th> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/khalil%20almarzooq.jpg?itok=1SPENK2X" alt="img" width="311" height="231" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Amnesty Int'l: Bahrain Must Immediately Release Opposition Leader</strong></p> <p>he arrest of the prominent opposition leader Khalil al-Marzouq in Bahrain last night is the authorities' latest move to tighten the noose on political opposition in the country and silence anyone seen to be critical of the authorities, Amnesty International said.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/8c0358759a/69a31f0425/07b4bc23c4">Link to the full article</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/BCHR%20CIVICUS%2C%20CIHRS.jpg?itok=vvrkc-0s" alt="img" width="311" height="231" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>BCHR Acting President Maryam Al-Khawaja Delivers Intervention at Human Rights Council</strong></p> <p>The Bahrain Center for Human Right's Acting President, Maryam Al-Khawaja, delivered an intervention at the Human Rights Council's 24th Session today under Item 4.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/8c0358759a/69a31f0425/ba02ae8183">Link to the full statement</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/said%20at%20HRC%20Side%20session%20sep%202013%20HRW.jpg?itok=y193oWVf" alt="img" width="311" height="231" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>BCHR's Head of Documentation, Said Yousif Al-Muhafdah, Speaks at Human Rights Council Side Event</strong></p> <p>Acting Vice President and Head of Documentation, Said Yousif Al-Muhafdah, spoke at a side event at the UN Human Rights Council hosted by Human Rights Watch. Al-Muhafdah focused on the lack of implementation of the Universal Periodic Review recommendations, and specifically the rights to freedom of expression and assembly in Bahrain.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/8c0358759a/69a31f0425/fb2c2ff9f0">Link to the full statement</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/amnesty_logo.png?itok=_b2oeJ5i" alt="img" width="311" height="231" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Amnesty Int'l: Fifteen-year-old Diabetic Boy Held In Bahrain</strong></p> <p>Ali Muslim Ebrahim, a 15-year-old Bahraini boy who suffers from diabetes, was arrested at his home in al-Hidd in northern Bahrain on 8 September and was reportedly hit on the head during interrogation. 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Both the BCHR's Head of Documentation Said Yousif and Acting President Maryam Al-Khawaja were present to participate in side events. </p> <p>In Bahrain, photojournalist Abdulla Al-Jurdabi was ordered into detention for 45 days by court order pending investigation, while a police officer who posted a video of himself interrogating a youth under distress was released from jail. In house raids, five people were abducted just this morning in house raids from the town of Karbabad. And finally, in the government's most recent move to codify into law the crackdown on pro-democracy activists and human rights defenders, the Cabinet in Bahrain approved legislation to criminalize anyone who promotes the "disruption of public order morale."</p> <p>Read below for details on these stories and more.</p> <p> </p> <table width="781" border="1"> <tr> <th bgcolor="#E2422D" valign="center"><h2 class="h2"><a name="impunity" id="impunity"></a>A Culture of Impunity</h2></th> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/public%20prosecution%20office%205x3.png?itok=VcNkozoc" name="" width="317" height="241" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" /><strong>Special Investigations Unit Makes Claims to False Achievements and Colludes to Extract Revenge On Political Prisoners, Prisoners of Conscience</strong></p> <p>The BCHR releases a report on how the Special Investigations Unit, established by the BICI report, functions to conceal crimes committed by the authorities against political prisoners, and cooperates with the police in prisoner abuse.</p> <p><a href="mailto:http://www.bahrainrights.org/en/node/6388">Link to the full report. </a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/tortureVid1.png?itok=CURO1FLg" name="" width="317" height="241" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" /><strong>Police Officer Released From Prison After Publishing Video Interrogating a Youth Under Duress</strong></p> <p>The police officer who published a video of his interrogation with a young, shirtless man with injuries on his back, was released from prison today.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f06a1bf8e8/69a31f0425/5402e5e131">Link to the original BCHR article from June.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/انتهاكات-البحرين.jpg?itok=mycncrpi" name="" width="317" height="241" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" /><strong>Repression and Impunity in Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen</strong></p> <p>BCHR Acting President Maryam Al-Khawaja spoke at a Human Rights Council side event last week about the culture of impunity in Bahrain.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f06a1bf8e8/69a31f0425/ea4104a755">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f06a1bf8e8/69a31f0425/c6ab4e4340">Link to a video of Ms. Al-Khawaja's presentation.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <table width="781" border="1"> <tr> <th bgcolor="#e10610"><h2><a name="trials" id="trials"></a><span class="h2">Trials and Prison Sentences</span></h2></th> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Moqdad1.png?itok=4MT-4A_M" alt="img" width="337" height="216" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Eight Members of the AlMoqdad family in prison; Youngest is 15 years old</strong></p> <p>The family of AlMoqdad has had eight of its members arrested so far, which started with the arrest of two prominent political leaders in 2011. The last victims, who are 15 and 16 year-old boys, were arrested several days ago; a ninth member of the family is also on trial.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f06a1bf8e8/69a31f0425/85104a0268">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <table width="781" border="1"> <tr> <th bgcolor="#e10610"><h1><a name="other" id="other"></a><span class="h2">NGO & Other News</span></h1></th> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/EU%20Parliament.jpg?itok=l79Aa08W" alt="img" width="311" height="282" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>EU Parliament Issues Resolution on Bahrain</strong></p> <p>The European Parliament issued a strong resolution condemning the human rights situation in Bahrain last week. </p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f06a1bf8e8/69a31f0425/705839ccac/url=http://www.marietjeschaake.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/JMR-Bahrain.pdf&chrome=true">Link to the full resolution. </a></p> <p>The Bahrain Center for Human Rights joined the European-Bahraini Center for Human Rights, the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights, and the Bahrain Human Rights Society to welcome the EU Parliament resolution on Bahrain last week. </p> <p><a href="#">Link to the statement from Bahraini NGOs</a>.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/navi_pillay.jpg?itok=_rJYhifx" alt="img" width="315" height="238" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />Bahraini NGOs Express Gratitude to the OHCHR, and Signatories to the Joint Statement on Bahrain, and Encourage Further Action</strong></p> <p>The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Navi Pillay, issued a strong statement about the human rights situation in Bahrain during her opening remarks at the 24th session of the Human Rights Council last week. </p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f06a1bf8e8/69a31f0425/72e5052acb">Link to the full statement.</a></p> <p>The BCHR, the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights, the European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights, and the Bahrain Human Rights Society issued a statement to express their gratitude to the OHCHR, and encouraged further action by state parties.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f06a1bf8e8/69a31f0425/f1fea79dca">Link to the full statement from Bahraini NGOs.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p><img 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alt="img" width="284" height="207" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />Bahrain security forces routinely detain children without cause and subject them to ill-treatment that may rise to the level of torture, Human Rights Watch said today, based on reports from victims, family members and legal rights activists.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f06a1bf8e8/69a31f0425/5c705a5243">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/b9b82516d/www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/John%20Horne%20Speech.jpg" alt="img" width="310" height="207" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>John Horne Gives Interview on Bahrain at UK Arms Fair</strong></p> <p>At the UK arms fair last week, John Horne of Bahrain Watch provides details of how the UK government is pursuing arms deals with the government of Bahrain, and hosting members of the royal family who have serious torture allegations against them. </p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f06a1bf8e8/69a31f0425/c5b1a21ed2/sns=tw&v=qoeZE4v7bv8&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DqoeZE4v7bv8%26sns%3Dtw&app=desktop">Link to the interview.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/syria.jpg?itok=7ZmiR5Qh" alt="img" width="310" height="207" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>BCHR Joins 20 Arab Organisations to Decry America's Impending Strike in Syria and Assad's Crimes</strong></p> <p>We express our full solidarity with the struggle of the Syrian people for freedom and human rights, including the right to self-determination through free and fair democratic processes.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f06a1bf8e8/69a31f0425/ecce260ad3">Link to the full statement. </a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> <div 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class="header" style="background-color: #FFF"><a href="#"></a><a href="#"></a><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/1f88bd5d1/www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/BCHR%20Logo2.png" width="850" hspace="20" /><a href="#"></a><a href="#"></a><a href="#"></a> <!-- end .header --></div> <div class="sidebar1" style="float: left;width: 180px;background-color: #f7f7f7;padding-bottom: 10px"> <ul class="nav" style="padding: 0;margin: 0;border: 5;border-color: #000;list-style: none;border-top: 1px solid #666;margin-bottom: 15px"><li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"> <div align="center">Issue No. 62 </div> </li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"> <div align="center">09 September 2013 </div> </li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li 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& Other News</a></strong></li> </ul><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, registered with the Bahraini Ministry of Labor and Social Services since 2002.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">Despite an order by the authorities in November 2004 to close, the BCHR continues to operate after gaining a wide internal and external support for its struggle to promote human rights in Bahrain.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">For more information, please visit our website:</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9b84f51783/69a31f0425/cec46423ee">www.bahrainrights.org</a></p> <!-- end .sidebar1 --></div> <div class="content" style="padding: 10px 0;width: 780px;float: left"> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#E2422D" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="impunity" id="impunity2"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">News Summary</span></h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">In the month of August the BCHR documented 150 arrests, amongst them 15 children and one woman. This is without counting those who were arrested then released. The BCHR also documented 400 house raids, 50 injuries from shotgun pellets and tear gas, and the vandalism of 20 cars by tear gas or batons. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">The authorities not only escalated their crackdown on the streets but also against political prisoners. Political and human rights leaders, known as the Bahrain13, are being subjected to further targeting and harassment. Also, defendants and lawyers of the February 14th Coalition case have announced they are boycotting the trial, despite that, the verdict hearing is expected on the 19th or 20th of September. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Ali Hatem (14) was reportedly tortured and ill-treated. Jaffar Al-Muqdad (15) was arrested and ordered to 60 days imprisonment pending investigation under the internationally condemned terrorism law. Ali Muslim (16), who suffers from diabetes and needs an insulin shot daily, was abducted from Arad and there are concerns about his well-being. These are a few examples of of many children who have been arrested in the last week.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Read below for details on these stories and more.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#E2422D" valign="center" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 class="h2" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF"><a name="impunity" id="impunity"></a>A Culture of Impunity</h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/622_Page__2.jpeg?itok=ncuB8YgU" name="" width="317" height="241" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /><strong>Bahrain: Instead of release, Bahrain13 Subjected to Further Targeting and Harassment</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">The rights of the imprisoned political and human rights leaders, known as the Bahrain13, have been repeatedly violated according to the "standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners" with a serious escalation recently. They have been put in smaller area in the prison, deprived from medical treatment and visitation, among other violations, which puts the life of some of them at serious risk.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9b84f51783/69a31f0425/7a666689c1">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/amnesty_logo.png?itok=_b2oeJ5i" name="" width="317" height="241" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /><strong>BAHRAIN: CHILD TORTURED IN DETENTION IN BAHRAIN</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Bahraini boy aged 14, Ali Hatem Ali Salman, was arrested on 26 August 2013 and reportedly tortured and otherwise ill-treated during interrogation to "confess" to rioting. On 3 September the Juvenile Prosecution extended his detention for another week.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9b84f51783/69a31f0425/752daf3324">Link to the full article.</a> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/FreeSafy.png?itok=MuhNDQaq" name="" width="316" height="224" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /><strong>Internet Activists Demand Release of Bahraini Blogger Mohammed Hassan</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Global Voices Advocacy and bloggers around the world are calling for the release of Mohammed Hassan (Safybh), a young Bahraini blogger and human rights advocate who has been held in detention in Bahrain since July. Hassan was arrested and taken from his home in Sitra, Bahrain on the morning of July 31. Security agents seized Hassan's computer and other electronics. He was held at the Criminal Investigation Directorate in Manama until August 4, when he was reportedly transferred to Dry Dock Detention Center in the town of Hidd.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9b84f51783/69a31f0425/452f14103c">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"></p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/torture.jpg?itok=36xqkF6T" name="" width="316" height="224" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /><strong>Bahrain: Several Arrests without Warrants, Fear of Torture, After Dawn House Raids in Nuwaidrat Village</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Recently, the BCHR documented the arbitrary arrest of several people in Nuwaidrat village at dawn without warrants on the 26th of August 2013. The BCHR expresses serious concern that these individuals might be subjected to torture and ill treatment in order to extract enforced confessions.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9b84f51783/69a31f0425/15b283de8b">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"></p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Nasser and Khalid.jpg?itok=Y6N2jtkZ" name="" width="316" height="224" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /><strong>Bahrain: On the Establishment of an Arab Court for Human Rights in Bahrain</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">The BCHR welcomes the idea of establishing an Arab court to prosecute human right violators; however, the BCHR received the news of the Arab League Council's approval for Bahrain to host the permanent headquarters of the Arab Court with dismay regarding the seriousness of the objectives of establishing the court given the notorious record that the government of Bahrain and the members of the ruling family, including the top of the hierarchy the country's King, have in the field of human rights and public liberties.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9b84f51783/69a31f0425/2da8f2f590">Link to the full article.</a> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"></p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#e10610" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="trials" id="trials"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">Trials and Prison Sentences</span></h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/court.jpg?itok=gJC5tZit" name="" width="316" height="224" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /><strong>Bahrain: Sham Court Sets a Date for Verdict While Ignoring the Boycott of Lawyers and Defendants</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">The February 14th Coalition court session didn't go ahead due to the boycotting of the defendants and their lawyers; the judge didn't show up to the session either. Despite the session not taking place, a court decision was issued announcing the 19th and 20th of September as possible verdict reading dates.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9b84f51783/69a31f0425/52256f28f7">Link to the full article. </a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Naji-Fateel-with-Margaret-Sekaggya-300x203.jpg?itok=5vSy9ny3" name="" width="316" height="224" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /><strong>HRD Naji Fateel-he will be sentenced on 29 September</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Fourth Criminal Court decided to postpone the hearing in the case of the<strong> "coalition of the February 14″</strong> to <strong>29 September, 2013 </strong>for sentencing. All the defendants did not attend the hearing after they decided to boycott because of the lack of neutrality and judicial independence.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9b84f51783/69a31f0425/3862a46616">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#e10610" style="font-family: Garamond"><h1 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="other" id="other"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">NGO & Other News</span></h1></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Ali%20Bin%20Fadhel%20Al-Buainain.jpg?itok=yElWvZTW" alt="img" width="336" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Bahrain rights groups back Ceartas call not to re-elect Bahrain's Attorney General</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Leading Bahrain human rights organisations have supported a call by Ceartas – Irish Lawyers for Human Rights urging the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) to expel Dr. Ali bin Fadhel Al-Buainain from its executive committee. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9b84f51783/69a31f0425/18dc8bc38d">Link to the full article. </a> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/protesttorturebahrain_468.jpg?itok=3Tw4lgNQ" alt="img" width="336" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Top 6 Reasons for Bahrain to Host Arab Court of Human Rights</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">It was announced that Bahrain would be host of the Arab Court of Human Rights (..) The news was initially greeted with some surprise and skepticism by those who have followed the Kingdom's recent dismal performance on human rights. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9b84f51783/69a31f0425/73a088db65">Link to the video.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"></p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/torture.jpg?itok=36xqkF6T" name="" width="316" height="224" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /><strong>Bahrain to host pan-Arab human rights court</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">The official Bahrain News Agency (BNA) reported on Monday that the kingdom would host the permanent headquarters of the Arab Human Rights Court following its approval at an Arab League meeting in Cairo. Maryam AlKhawaja, the acting head of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, said the court's creation was a public relations stunt.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9b84f51783/69a31f0425/dda4f832ea">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"></p> </div> <div class="footer" style="padding: 10px 0;background-color: #f7f7f7;position: relative;clear: both;text-align: center"> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">The Bahrain Center for Human Rights</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">Dronningsgade 14, 1420 Copenhagen, Denmark</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9b84f51783/69a31f0425/d9805b51ab">www.bahrainrights.org</a></p> <!-- end .footer --></div> <!-- end .container --></div> </p> <br> <br style="clear: both;"> <hr> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td> <font face="arial,verdana" size="1"> <a href="http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/733045/9b84f51783/289752287/69a31f0425/">Click to view this email in a browser</a> <br/><br/> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please reply to this message with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line or simply click on the following link: <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/u?9b84f51783/69a31f0425/mlpftw">Unsubscribe</a> </font> </td> </tr> </table> <hr> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td> <font face="arial,verdana" size="1"> Bahrain Center for Human Rights<br/> Street BB 2212<br/> Manama, M 2001<br/> BH<br/> <p> <a href="http://www.verticalresponse.com/content/pm_policy.html" target="_blank">Read</a> the VerticalResponse marketing policy. </p> </font> </td> <td align="right"> <a href="http://www.verticalresponse.com/landing/ef/?np/9b84f51783&utm_campaign=footer&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=footer" target="_blank"> <img border="0" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/np_pwrby_vr_logo_126.gif" alt="Non-Profits Email Free with VerticalResponse!"/> </a> </td> </tr> </table> <img alt="" src="http://cts.vresp.com/o.gif?9b84f51783/69a31f0425/mlpftw"/> BAHRAIN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01457943964785689558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7511930530400846695.post-41962025938795588952013-09-02T13:08:00.001+03:002013-10-13T11:40:43.060+03:00Funeral Attacked, Enforced Disappearances Continue: Weekly Newsletter<div class="container"> <div class="header"><a href="#"><a href="#"></a><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/1f88bd5d1/www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/BCHR%20Logo2.png" width="850" hspace="20" /></a><a href="#"><a href="#"></a><a href="#"></a></a> <!-- end .header --></div> <div class="sidebar1"> <ul class="nav"> <li></li> <li></li> <li> <div align="center">Issue No. 61 </div> </li> <li> <div align="center">02 September 2013 </div> </li> <li></li> <li></li> <li><a href="#newssummary"> <strong>News Summary</strong></a></li> <li><strong><a href="#impunity">A Culture of Impunity</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#trials">Trials & Prison Sentences</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#other">NGO & Other News</a></strong></li> </ul> <p align="justify">The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, registered with the Bahraini Ministry of Labor and Social Services since 2002.</p> <p align="justify">Despite an order by the authorities in November 2004 to close, the BCHR continues to operate after gaining a wide internal and external support for its struggle to promote human rights in Bahrain.</p> <p align="justify">For more information, please visit our website:</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/05b08c1264/69a31f0425/0a687fa655">www.bahrainrights.org</a></p> <!-- end .sidebar1 --></div> <div class="content"> <table width="781" border="1"> <tr> <th bgcolor="#E2422D"><h2><a name="impunity" id="impunity2"></a><span class="h2">News Summary</span></h2></th> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p>Last week, the BCHR released a report sampling cases of enforced disappearance in Bahrain to mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. The BCHR continues to receive reports of police officers abducting individuals from their homes, including one today in the village of Jidhafs. </p> <p>BCHR President Nabeel Rajab celebrated his second birthday in prison last week, and the detention was extended for a blind activist who was reportedly tortured in police custody and denied medical attention. </p> <p>Read below for details on these stories and more.</p> <p> </p> <table width="781" border="1"> <tr> <th bgcolor="#E2422D" valign="center"><h2 class="h2"><a name="impunity" id="impunity"></a>A Culture of Impunity</h2></th> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Report%20Cover%20Image%20II.jpg?itok=KbUOOAj0" name="" width="317" height="241" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" /><strong>BCHR Releases Report on International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances</strong></p> <p>To mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights releases a report detailing a sample of cases of enforced disappearances in Bahrain. In 2011, the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry concluded that "the commission is able to determine that the Government of Bahrain concealed or withheld from detainees and/or their families information about the detained persons' whereabouts for periods ranging from days to weeks". The authorities continue to heavily rely on this illegal practice to terrorize the population. </p> <p>Despite the government's claims of reforms, the police continue this brutal, and illegal practice. Today, the BCHR received reports that house raids in the village of Jidhafs resulted in the abduction of Qassim Abdali. </p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/05b08c1264/69a31f0425/615251f586">Link to the full report.</a></p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/e47d70ed9/bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/BTEwcQ1IUAAPdBL.png" name="" width="162" height="241" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" /><strong>Funeral of Youth Reportedly Attacked by Police</strong></p> <p>Sadiq Sabt died from injuries he sustained four weeks ago when struck by a car in a hit and run. The culture of impunity in Bahrain has allowed for the officers attack peaceful funeral processions with tear gas.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <table width="781" border="1"> <tr> <th bgcolor="#e10610"><h2><a name="trials" id="trials"></a><span class="h2">Trials and Prison Sentences</span></h2></th> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/NabeelRajab.jpg?itok=a9lam8wo" alt="img" width="280" height="216" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>BCHR President Nabeel Rajab Spends 2nd Birthday in Prison</strong></p> <p>The BCHR's President Nabeel Rajab was sentenced to prison in 2012 for a tweet he made critical of the government. He was originally sentenced to three years, but this sentences was later reduced to two.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/05b08c1264/69a31f0425/df30321e2d">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/65db14362/bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/AliSaad.jpg" alt="img" width="280" height="216" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Court Orders Extended Detention of Blind and Reportedly Tortured Bahraini </strong></p> <p>The authorities ordered the detention of Ali Abdulla Saad extended for 45 days pending investigation.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/05b08c1264/69a31f0425/1f06142c1e">Link to a previous article about his arrest and reported detention.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <table width="781" border="1"> <tr> <th bgcolor="#e10610"><h1><a name="other" id="other"></a><span class="h2">NGO & Other News</span></h1></th> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/freedomhouse.jpg?itok=BXAbzItJ" alt="img" width="336" height="248" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Freedom House Photo Auction Winner Targeted by Bahraini Authorities</strong></p> <p>Freedom House is deeply disturbed by reports that photographer Ahmed al-Fardan, the 2013 winner of Freedom House's "Images of Repression and Freedom" photo contest, was detained and beaten by police in Bahrain on August 8, in an attempt to prevent him from covering recent protests.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/05b08c1264/69a31f0425/4c82032774">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Rihana_nafeesa.jpg?itok=pmCt6M0p" alt="img" width="336" height="248" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />Amnesty Int'l: Grand Prix Protestors Tortured in Bahrain</strong></p> <p>Nafeesa al-'Asfoor, a mother-of-two, was arrested along with Rayhana al-Mousawi on 20 April as they were peacefully protesting near the Formula One Grand Prix circuit in Manama. They are both to be tried, have been tortured and Nafeesa al-'Asfoor is being denied the medical care she requires.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/05b08c1264/69a31f0425/53878d56ad">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/protest.jpg?itok=vM2WJYlb" alt="img" width="336" height="248" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />BBC: Is Police Reform in Bahrain Facade or Fact?</strong></p> <p>The BBC looks into accusations of police brutality and allegations of torture in Bahrain and questions the government's claims of reform.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/05b08c1264/69a31f0425/c07248d080">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/zainab.jpg?itok=-j6NOSXP" alt="img" width="336" height="248" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />Brian Dooley: Dr. King's Lessons Inspire A Bahraini Activist</strong></p> <p>Brian Dooley, from Human Rights First, writes about how imprisoned activist <strong>Zainab Al-Khawaja </strong>is inspired by non-violent methods of Dr. Martin Luther King on the 50th anniversary of his 'I Have a Dream' speech.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/05b08c1264/69a31f0425/b1a76bc17d">Link to the full article. </a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> <div class="footer"> <p>The Bahrain Center for Human Rights</p> <p>Dronningsgade 14, 1420 Copenhagen, Denmark</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/05b08c1264/69a31f0425/2a61b15d19">www.bahrainrights.org</a></p> <!-- end .footer --></div> <!-- end .container --></div> </p> <br> <br style="clear: both;"> <hr> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td> <font face="arial,verdana" size="1"> <a href="http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/733045/05b08c1264/289752287/69a31f0425/">Click to view this email in a browser</a> <br/><br/> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please reply to this message with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line or simply click on the following link: <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/u?05b08c1264/69a31f0425/mlpftw">Unsubscribe</a> </font> </td> </tr> </table> <hr> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td> <font face="arial,verdana" size="1"> Bahrain Center for Human Rights<br/> Street BB 2212<br/> Manama, M 2001<br/> BH<br/> <p> <a href="http://www.verticalresponse.com/content/pm_policy.html" target="_blank">Read</a> the VerticalResponse marketing policy. </p> </font> </td> <td align="right"> <a href="http://www.verticalresponse.com/landing/ef/?np/05b08c1264&utm_campaign=footer&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=footer" target="_blank"> <img border="0" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/np_pwrby_vr_logo_126.gif" alt="Non-Profits Email Free with VerticalResponse!"/> </a> </td> </tr> </table> <img alt="" src="http://cts.vresp.com/o.gif?05b08c1264/69a31f0425/mlpftw"/> BAHRAIN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01457943964785689558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7511930530400846695.post-27322181335378043542013-08-30T19:18:00.001+03:002013-10-13T11:40:43.049+03:00BCHR Report on International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances<h1 style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">BCHR Releases Report on International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances</span></h1> <div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"></span></div> <div data-action="like" data-font="arial" data-href="http://www.bahrainrights.org/en/node/6351" data-layout="button_count" data-ref=".UiDCW6G53Kk.like" data-send="false" data-show_faces="false" data-width="90" fb-xfbml-state="rendered" style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/899e06d77b/69a31f0425/c5374d71e1"><img alt="" src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/d4d50e4b3/www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/report%20image%20cover%20enforced%20disapearance.png" style="width: 211px; height: 300px;" /></a></span></p> <p> <span style="font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;">To mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights releases </span><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/899e06d77b/69a31f0425/4fe44deaf7" style="font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;">a report detailing a sample of cases of enforced disappearances in Bahrain</a><span style="font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;">. In 2011, the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry concluded that "the commission is able to determine that the Government of Bahrain concealed or withheld from detainees and/or their families information about the detained persons' whereabouts for periods ranging from days to weeks". The authorities continue to heavily rely on this illegal practice to terrorize the population. </span></p> </div> </div> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">In a typical enforced disappearance, a family's home is raided in a pre-dawn attack by the security forces, along with men in civilian clothing wearing masks over their faces. A member of the family si abducted by the authorities, and the home is ransacked. The authorities often take electronics and cash, which are never returned. Almost without exception, the family is not presented with an arrest warrant. When the family then tries to contact the abducted individual at the local police station, they are informed that the person is not in their custody, which often later turns out to be false. Detainees are frequently prevented from contacting their family for days, and sometimes weeks. Victims of enforced disappearances have been repeatedly subjected to torture and ill-treatment, interrogated without the presences of a lawyer and coerced into signing false confessions. They are deprived of their most basic rights.</span></p> <h2 style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/899e06d77b/69a31f0425/8011c0f841">Link to the full report</a></span></h2> <center> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> </center> </p> <br> <br style="clear: both;"> <hr> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td> <font face="arial,verdana" size="1"> <a href="http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/733045/899e06d77b/289752287/69a31f0425/">Click to view this email in a browser</a> <br/><br/> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please reply to this message with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line or simply click on the following link: <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/u?899e06d77b/69a31f0425/mlpftw">Unsubscribe</a> </font> </td> </tr> </table> <hr> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td> <font face="arial,verdana" size="1"> Bahrain Center for Human Rights<br/> Street BB 2212<br/> Manama, M 2001<br/> BH<br/> <p> <a href="http://www.verticalresponse.com/content/pm_policy.html" target="_blank">Read</a> the VerticalResponse marketing policy. </p> </font> </td> <td align="right"> <a href="http://www.verticalresponse.com/landing/ef/?np/899e06d77b&utm_campaign=footer&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=footer" target="_blank"> <img border="0" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/np_pwrby_vr_logo_126.gif" alt="Non-Profits Email Free with VerticalResponse!"/> </a> </td> </tr> </table> <img alt="" src="http://cts.vresp.com/o.gif?899e06d77b/69a31f0425/mlpftw"/> BAHRAIN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01457943964785689558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7511930530400846695.post-67331768415519449292013-08-26T14:34:00.001+03:002013-10-13T11:39:12.998+03:00Weekly Newsletter<div class="container"> <div class="header"><a href="#"><a href="#"></a><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/1f88bd5d1/www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/BCHR%20Logo2.png" width="850" hspace="20" /></a><a href="#"><a href="#"></a><a href="#"></a></a> <!-- end .header --></div> <div class="sidebar1"> <ul class="nav"> <li></li> <li></li> <li> <div align="center">Issue No. 60 </div> </li> <li> <div align="center">26 August 2013 </div> </li> <li></li> <li></li> <li><a href="#newssummary"> <strong>News Summary</strong></a></li> <li><strong><a href="#impunity">A Culture of Impunity</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#trials">Trials & Prison Sentences</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#other">NGO & Other News</a></strong></li> </ul> <p align="justify">The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, registered with the Bahraini Ministry of Labor and Social Services since 2002.</p> <p align="justify">Despite an order by the authorities in November 2004 to close, the BCHR continues to operate after gaining a wide internal and external support for its struggle to promote human rights in Bahrain.</p> <p align="justify">For more information, please visit our website:</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c580c91c4e/69a31f0425/ac3187d330">www.bahrainrights.org</a></p> <!-- end .sidebar1 --></div> <div class="content"> <table width="781" border="1"> <tr> <th bgcolor="#E2422D"><h2><a name="impunity" id="impunity2"></a><span class="h2">News Summary</span></h2></th> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p>This week will see the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, and the BCHR is continuing to document the practice of using enforced disappearances on a regular basis. Two brothers were arrested, tortured, sexually harassed by the police, and forced to make false confessions. In another case of abuse, two fathers of victims of the government's brutality were arrested for peacefully demonstrating and demanding justice for their son's deaths.</p> <p> </p> <p>Read below for details on these stories and more.</p> <p> </p> <table width="781" border="1"> <tr> <th bgcolor="#E2422D" valign="center"><h2 class="h2"><a name="impunity" id="impunity"></a>A Culture of Impunity</h2></th> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/hmed%20abbas%20mowali%20protest%20photo.jpg?itok=PiPmU-Qm" name="" width="317" height="241" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" /><strong>Repeated Detention of Fathers of Extra-Judicial Victims Who Demand Justice For Their Sons</strong></p> <p>Two fathers who have peacefully protested to demand justice for their killed sons were arrested and detained again on charges of 'illegal gathering'. </p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c580c91c4e/69a31f0425/8141d2c1e4">Link to the full article. </a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Mansi_brothers.jpg?itok=2VCwsKSL" name="" width="317" height="241" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" /><strong>Mahmood and Mohammed AlMansi: Two Brothers Tortured for Confessions</strong></p> <p>The family home was raided on several occasions, and both brothers were tortured into confessing to an attack on the home of a member of the royal family, even though one brother could prove that he was at work during the alleged time of the attack.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c580c91c4e/69a31f0425/b81520eb61">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p><strong><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Abdulla%20Yousif%20and%20Zuhair%20Yehya.jpg?itok=f9fUmKOB" alt="img" width="319" height="216" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />Violently Arrested and Sexually Harassed, Abdulla and Zuhair: Victims of Impunity</strong></p> <p>Abdullla Yousif Mohammed (24 years old), and Zuhair Yehya Rashid (23 years old) were both violently arrested on the 14th of August 2013 on charges related to attacking an official.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c580c91c4e/69a31f0425/07c2d629c8">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/CEDAW.jpg?itok=PuH9P8_h" alt="img" width="319" height="216" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /></p> <p><strong>BCHR Report to the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women</strong></p> <p>The report examines the implementation of key observations made by the CEDAW Committee in 2008, and highlights the consequences of the current crisis in Bahrain on the fundamental rights and freedoms of women.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c580c91c4e/69a31f0425/028e8afba5">Link to the full report.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <table width="781" border="1"> <tr> <th bgcolor="#e10610"><h2><a name="trials" id="trials"></a><span class="h2">Trials and Prison Sentences</span></h2></th> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Court.jpg?itok=Tkvku2s3" alt="img" width="319" height="216" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Biased Court Hears Torturer's Testimony Against His Victims</strong></p> <p>Ten defendants are on trial under the internationally criticized terrorism law. The defendants have not been allowed to speak about the violations to their rights during arrest, detention, and interrogation.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c580c91c4e/69a31f0425/d80eb21008">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <table width="781" border="1"> <tr> <th bgcolor="#e10610"><h1><a name="other" id="other"></a><span class="h2">NGO & Other News</span></h1></th> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Salman_Mahdi.jpg?itok=AtVu_qmS" alt="img" width="336" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Amnesty Int'l: Boy Arrested, Threatened, Risks Torture</strong></p> <p>A 13-year-old Bahraini boy, Salman Mahdi Salman, has been arrested and had his detention order renewed for seven days by the Public Prosecution on 21 August. He is held in a juvenile detention centre, but at risk of torture or other ill-treatment.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c580c91c4e/69a31f0425/64e721fd53">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Siddiqa.jpg?itok=1vkVs7u7" alt="img" width="336" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Amnesty Int'l: Female Activist Detained</strong></p> <p>Seddiqa al-Basri, a 27-year-old mother of two, has been detained since 14 August. Three other women and a girl were detained with her but released shortly after. Seddiqa al- Basri is a possible prisoner of conscience and is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c580c91c4e/69a31f0425/e4a502a360">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/e47933220/www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/Screen%20Shot%202013-08-26%20at%201.07.48%20PM.png" alt="img" width="336" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />BCHR Acting President Maryam Al-Khawaja appeared on CNN to discuss the Bahraini government's oppression of the Bahraini people.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c580c91c4e/69a31f0425/3500e7b749/iref=allsearch">Link to the full article and video interview.</a></p> <p> </p> </div> <div class="footer"> <p>The Bahrain Center for Human Rights</p> <p>Dronningsgade 14, 1420 Copenhagen, Denmark</p> <p><a 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</ul><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, registered with the Bahraini Ministry of Labor and Social Services since 2002.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">Despite an order by the authorities in November 2004 to close, the BCHR continues to operate after gaining a wide internal and external support for its struggle to promote human rights in Bahrain.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">For more information, please visit our website:</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9f9d00f453/69a31f0425/6b1c668c44">www.bahrainrights.org</a></p> <!-- end .sidebar1 --></div> <div class="content" style="padding: 10px 0;width: 780px;float: left"> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#E2422D" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="impunity" id="impunity2"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">News Summary</span></h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">On the 14th of August, which marks Bahrain's independence day, and in anticipation of Tamarod (rebellion movement) the authorities in Bahrain took drastic security measures to prevent people from exercising their right to peaceful protests. The BCHR documented dozens of injuries caused by teargas and shotgun pellets, at least 30 were arrested and dozens of houses were raided. In Kawara village, security forces attacked three children, aged 9 to 16 years, with gunshot pellets inside the house. The eldest child has been hospitalized and her family has not been informed that there is a warrant for her arrest.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Moreover, political prisoners are being subjected to ill-treatment, torture and violations to their basic rights. Political prisoners in block 10 at the Dry Docks prison were subjected to severe beatings and attacked with teargas and stun grenade inside closed cells which resulted in at least 40 injuries. In addition, political prisoner Nafeesa AlAsfoor and incarcerated activist Zainab Al Khawaja both have their health at serious risk. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Read below for details on these stories and more.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#E2422D" valign="center" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 class="h2" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF"><a name="impunity" id="impunity"></a>A Culture of Impunity</h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Fatima%20AlKhawaja%20-%20Kawara_0.jpg?itok=KG_HQapy" name="" width="317" height="241" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /><strong>Bahrain: Fatima AlKhawaja, from Injured Victim to Accused Defendent</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">The regime forces attacked a family inside their home, injuring a sixteen-year-old girl with a pellet shotgun. They claimed to be chasing protesters. The family was then asked to bring her to the Public Prosecution for interrogation on charges of illegal gathering and insulting the king. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9f9d00f453/69a31f0425/a34bbafb5a">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Nafeesa.jpg?itok=bNmVsOni" name="" width="317" height="241" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /><strong>URGENT APPEAL: Nafeesa Al-Asfoor – Political Prisoner's Health at Risk, Denied Adequate Medical</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> Nafeesa Al Asfoor is being denied adequate medical care despite the several attempts of her family with the prison administration. She was checked for suspicious multiple breast lumps in the past which is now back with pain. She also suffers from dislocation of jaw joints and has lost consciousness several times. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9f9d00f453/69a31f0425/ee7d0a4dfd">Link to the full article.</a> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/zainab.jpg?itok=-j6NOSXP" name="" width="316" height="224" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /><strong>URGENT APPEAL: </strong><strong>Health of Activist Zainab AlKhawaja in danger</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Activist Zainab Al Khawaja is incarcerated with prisoners who have hepatitis A and B, highly contagious infections, without vaccination and the prison administration is ignoring her complaint. During a visit, her family voiced concern as they noted that she looked pale and had lost weight. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9f9d00f453/69a31f0425/5a3fc6cffa">Link to the full article.</a> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/protests%20august%2014.jpg?itok=xOTnfs9j" name="" width="316" height="224" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /><strong>Suppression Marks Tamarrod Protests Across Bahrain</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">The people of Bahrain are continuing to exercise their right to peacefully protest despite the government's crackdown. A large police force has camped around several of the embassies where protests were expected and at villages entrances, a large amounts of teargas have been used to disperse protests. Arrests are estimates at at least 30 people.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9f9d00f453/69a31f0425/cf4d603959">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#e10610" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="trials" id="trials"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">Trials and Prison Sentences</span></h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/abduljabbar%20ahmed_0.jpg?itok=WOUZZ2sr" name="" width="316" height="224" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /><strong>Abduljabbar Ahmed: Abducted from his Office, Held at the Criminal Investigations Department</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><strong>Abduljabbar Ahmed</strong>, 32 years old, from Karzakkan - south of the capital Manama, was reportedly abducted from his office at dawn on Sunday, August 11 2013, by intelligence officers in civilian clothing who said they work for the Criminal Investigations Department.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9f9d00f453/69a31f0425/9a3d6ee2e0">Link to the full article. </a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#e10610" style="font-family: Garamond"><h1 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="other" id="other"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">NGO & Other News</span></h1></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Mohamed_sanad.jpg?itok=cwqDGKaY" alt="img" width="336" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Amnesty Int'l: bahraini activist ARRESTED and CHARGED</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Bahraini banker <strong>Mohammad Sanad al-Makina</strong> was arrested on 9 August at Bahrain International Airport when leaving for a holiday with members of his family. He faces several charges including "inciting hatred against the regime". He is a prisoner of conscience.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9f9d00f453/69a31f0425/014e594585">Link to the full article. </a> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/cpj-low-res_logo_0.jpg?itok=dNki99Pc" alt="img" width="336" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>CPJ: Journalist arrested, another believed to be held in Bahrain</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">A Bahraini blogger has been detained and a photographer is missing amid signs that Bahraini authorities are trying to crack down on critical voices ahead of protests planned for August 14, according to news reports.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9f9d00f453/69a31f0425/c3d1503771">Link to the video.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/defenders.png?itok=qyQjonCP" alt="img" width="336" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Front Line Defenders: Bahrain: Government Abandons even the Rhetoric of Reform</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">As the Government of Bahrain prepares to implement a new series of draconian security measures, human rights defenders and political activists are preparing to use the 14th August anniversary of Bahrain's independence from England to challenge the ongoing security clampdown.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9f9d00f453/69a31f0425/42f145c5dc">Link to the full article. </a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Lawyer_Aziz_bloggers.jpg?itok=DExEVGN3" alt="img" width="336" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>RSF: Use Of Arrest And Torture In Bid To Stifle Protests In Bahrain</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Journalists who intend to cover the demonstration – and thereby challenge the government's insistence that everything is perfect in Bahrain – are exposed to arrest and mistreatment. There is still no news of a cameraman who was arrested on 2 August.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9f9d00f453/69a31f0425/5ccee630fc">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/BQdjS9DCQAA_7ld.jpg-large.jpeg?itok=NEI4SZJH" alt="img" width="336" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Bahrain: 51 Bloggers Demand the Release of Bahrain's Mohammed Hassan</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">On the 31st of July, our friend Mohammed Hassan (also known as Safy in the blogging sphere and social media) was arrested from his parents' house in the Bahraini town of Sitra without an arrest warrant. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/9f9d00f453/69a31f0425/5efc8394bd">Link to the full article. </a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Maryam_child.png?itok=2GQXGvUS" alt="img" width="336" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>My Parents' Bahrain</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">I write this not as the human rights defender I have become known as, but rather as the daughter of Bahraini parents who painted an ideal image of Bahrain for us since we were children growing up in exile in Denmark. 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RIGHTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01457943964785689558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7511930530400846695.post-61863872789294487542013-08-12T15:52:00.001+03:002013-10-13T11:41:49.283+03:00Reckless Police Behaviour Reportedly Kills Two More Civilians - Weekly Newsltter<div class="container"> <div class="header"><a href="#"><a href="#"></a><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/1f88bd5d1/www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/BCHR%20Logo2.png" width="850" hspace="20" /></a><a href="#"><a href="#"></a><a href="#"></a></a> <!-- end .header --></div> <div class="sidebar1"> <ul class="nav"> <li></li> <li></li> <li> <div align="center">Issue No. 58 </div> </li> <li> <div align="center">12 August 2013 </div> </li> <li></li> <li></li> <li><a href="#newssummary"> <strong>News Summary</strong></a></li> <li><strong><a href="#impunity">A Culture of Impunity</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#trials">Trials & Prison Sentences</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#other">NGO & Other News</a></strong></li> </ul> <p align="justify">The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, registered with the Bahraini Ministry of Labor and Social Services since 2002.</p> <p align="justify">Despite an order by the authorities in November 2004 to close, the BCHR continues to operate after gaining a wide internal and external support for its struggle to promote human rights in Bahrain.</p> <p align="justify">For more information, please visit our website:</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/21af68abcd/69a31f0425/7a0635d1f2">www.bahrainrights.org</a></p> <!-- end .sidebar1 --></div> <div class="content"> <table width="781" border="1"> <tr> <th bgcolor="#E2422D"><h2><a name="impunity" id="impunity2"></a><span class="h2">News Summary</span></h2></th> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p>Two civilians were killed while reportedly being chased by the police in the second car-related death in two weeks involving the reckless or intentionally behavior of the security forces. In the prison system, a lawyer was arrested after tweeting about the marks of torture he saw on an imprisoned blogger's body. In the media, pro-government journalists and MPs freely incite a sectarian divide while the government refuses to take action or investigate. </p> <p>The government moved to further close Bahraini society to the outside world, and denied BCHR Acting President Maryam Al-Khawaja her right to enter her own country. </p> <p>Read below for details on these stories and more.</p> <p> </p> <table width="781" border="1"> <tr> <th bgcolor="#E2422D" valign="center"><h2 class="h2"><a name="impunity" id="impunity"></a>A Culture of Impunity</h2></th> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Alaradi%20-%20AlBasri.jpg?itok=kUW6hNof" name="" width="317" height="241" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" /><strong>Two Civilians Killed in Horrific Car Crash after Being Reportedly Chased by Police and Civilian Cars</strong></p> <p> On 31st of June 2013, Ali Issa Abdulridha AlBasry (25 years old) and Mahmood Abbas Salman AlAradi (19 years old) died in a horrific car crash near Sitra area. This is the second car wreck related death in two weeks that reportedly involves reckless or intentionally dangerous driving by the security forces. </p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/21af68abcd/69a31f0425/6b1ce99881">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Maryam%20Al-Khawaja%20Portrait.png?itok=awkbFhb7" name="" width="316" height="224" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" /><strong>Acting President of BCHR and Co-Director of GCHR Banned from Boarding British Airways Flight to Bahrain</strong></p> <p>he Bahrain Government had issued a ban on her name which effectively prevents her from boarding her flight to Bahrain. Ms. Al-Khawaja had decided to visit Bahrain to monitor the situation ahead of planned protests set to take place on 14 August 2013.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/21af68abcd/69a31f0425/efc3441dda">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/mohammed%20khalid%20tweet%2010%20august%20resize.jpg?itok=-lFb4SXw" name="" width="316" height="224" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" /><strong>Sectarian Discourse is Still Ongoing in the Official Media</strong></p> <p>Pro-government journalists and Bahraini MPs continue to openly encourage a sectarian divide, and the government refuses to take action or investigate. </p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/21af68abcd/69a31f0425/76aba8629b">Link to the full article. </a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <table width="781" border="1"> <tr> <th bgcolor="#e10610"><h2><a name="trials" id="trials"></a><span class="h2">Trials and Prison Sentences</span></h2></th> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Lawyer_Aziz_bloggers.jpg?itok=DExEVGN3" alt="img" width="319" height="216" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Arrest of Lawyer after Tweeting about Torture of Detained Blogger</strong></p> <p>The lawyer AbdulAziz Mosa (<a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/21af68abcd/69a31f0425/91d64d5253">@AbdulAzizMoosa</a>) was arrested after tweeting about seeing marks of torture on the body of the detained blogger Mohamed Hassan (<a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/21af68abcd/69a31f0425/ac922bfd2b">@Safybh</a>). The arrest of Mohammed Hassan was soon followed by the arrest of photo journalist Hussain Hubail.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/21af68abcd/69a31f0425/eb93e09c6c">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <table width="781" border="1"> <tr> <th bgcolor="#e10610"><h1><a name="other" id="other"></a><span class="h2">NGO & Other News</span></h1></th> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/ohchr-pouilly.jpg?itok=Iqa3bBQG" alt="img" width="336" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>The UN Spokesperson for the OHCHR Concerned About Recommendations for Harsher Punishments Against Terrorism</strong></p> <p>Cécile Pouilly spoke about concerns that over the recommendations, which include increasing detention period or revoking citizenship of anyone found guilty of committing or inciting an act of terrorism.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/21af68abcd/69a31f0425/fd3a7a2b3a">Link to the full article. </a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/MaryamOnHuffington.png?itok=uJKdriRN" alt="img" width="336" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Maryam Al-Khawaja Speaks to the Huff Post Live</strong></p> <p>The Acting President of the BCHR appeared on the Huffington Post Live to discuss the changes made to the Bahraini national law, and the increase in the number of house raids and individuals tortured in prison.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/21af68abcd/69a31f0425/88dfb8ed11">Link to the video.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Hussain_Alhawaj.jpg?itok=S1Xjemzo" alt="img" width="336" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Amnesty Int'l: Bahrain: Child Sent to Prison After Demonstration</strong></p> <p>A 15-year-old boy, Hussain al-Hawaj, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment by a Bahraini court on 9 June for participation in a protest, arson and rioting . He is held in Jaw prison for adults. </p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/21af68abcd/69a31f0425/8ff3260d96">Link to the full article. </a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/amnesty_logo.png?itok=_b2oeJ5i" alt="img" width="336" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Amnesty Int'l: Bahrain: Social Media Activists Risk Torture in Bahrain</strong></p> <p>Mohammad Hassan Sadef, a 26-year-old blogger and translator and Hussain Habib, a 23-year-old cameraman, were arrested separately on 31 July. They are held incommunicado and are at risk of torture. They may be prisoners of conscience.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/21af68abcd/69a31f0425/25c2c70140">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/protest_0.jpg?itok=eZ8_BF-W" alt="img" width="336" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Amnesty Int'l: New Decrees Ban Dissent as Further Protests Organized</strong> <strong>in Bahrain</strong></p> <p>Two new emergency decrees issued by the King of Bahrain last night, which include the banning of all protests, are a further shameful attempt to completely ban any form of dissent and freedom of expression in the country, Amnesty International said.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/21af68abcd/69a31f0425/6821bf9989">Link to the full article. </a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/reu_bahrain_chloe1_700_06aug13.jpg?itok=ebgF8l2e" alt="img" width="336" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Middle East Voices: Bahrain's Lost Boys</strong></p> <p>Mahmood has not slept at home in eight months. His younger brother has not slept there in a year. But armed riot police continue to raid their family home monthly, breaking down bedroom doors searching for them.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/21af68abcd/69a31f0425/2ec3255343">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/twitter_0.jpg?itok=I39RnTN-" alt="img" width="336" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Bahrain's Gov't Has Declared a War On Twitter</strong></p> <p>Twitter has been used during the Arab Spring as it provides immediate, and often anonymous, information. Users can document government abuses with photographs and inform participants where a protest is to occur. To combat this, the government of Bahrain has begun to target Twitter users with harsh punishments, including torture and jail.</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/21af68abcd/69a31f0425/f78c54fd04">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p> </p> </div> <div class="footer"> <p>The Bahrain Center for Human Rights</p> <p>Dronningsgade 14, 1420 Copenhagen, Denmark</p> <p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/21af68abcd/69a31f0425/cc655c7e87">www.bahrainrights.org</a></p> <!-- end .footer --></div> <!-- end .container --></div> </p> <br> <br style="clear: both;"> <hr> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td> <font face="arial,verdana" size="1"> <a href="http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/733045/21af68abcd/289752287/69a31f0425/">Click to view this email in a browser</a> <br/><br/> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please reply to this message with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line or simply click on the following link: <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/u?21af68abcd/69a31f0425/mlpftw">Unsubscribe</a> </font> </td> </tr> </table> <hr> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td> <font face="arial,verdana" size="1"> Bahrain Center for Human Rights<br/> Street BB 2212<br/> Manama, M 2001<br/> BH<br/> <p> <a href="http://www.verticalresponse.com/content/pm_policy.html" target="_blank">Read</a> the VerticalResponse marketing policy. </p> </font> </td> <td align="right"> <a href="http://www.verticalresponse.com/landing/ef/?np/21af68abcd&utm_campaign=footer&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=footer" target="_blank"> <img border="0" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/np_pwrby_vr_logo_126.gif" alt="Non-Profits Email Free with VerticalResponse!"/> </a> </td> </tr> </table> <img alt="" src="http://cts.vresp.com/o.gif?21af68abcd/69a31f0425/mlpftw"/> BAHRAIN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01457943964785689558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7511930530400846695.post-92042061301682089252013-08-06T16:19:00.001+03:002013-10-13T11:39:13.006+03:00Letter From Bahrain NGOs Ahead of August 14 Protests<table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="center"> <tr> <td> <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/fbl?6924ce5f1e/69a31f0425/http%3A%2F%2Fhosted-p0.vresp.com%2F733045%2F6924ce5f1e%2FARCHIVE%23like"><img border="0" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/social_sharing/social_sharing.placeholder.facebook.png" border="0" /></a> </td> <td> <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/ts?6924ce5f1e/69a31f0425/http%3A%2F%2Fapi.addthis.com%2Foexchange%2F0.8%2Fforward%2Ftwitter%2Foffer%3Ftemplate%3D%257B%257Btitle%257D%257D%2B%257B%257Burl%257D%257D%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fhosted-p0.vresp.com%252F733045%252F6924ce5f1e%252FARCHIVE%26shortener%3Dbitly%26title%3DLetter%2BFrom%2BBahrain%2BNGOs%2BAhead%2Bof%2BAugust%2B14%2BProtests"><img border="0" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/social_sharing/social_sharing.placeholder.twitter.png" border="0" /></a> </td> <td> <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/ls?6924ce5f1e/69a31f0425/http%3A%2F%2Fapi.addthis.com%2Foexchange%2F0.8%2Fforward%2Flinkedin%2Foffer%3Ftemplate%3D%257B%257Btitle%257D%257D%2B%257B%257Burl%257D%257D%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fhosted-p0.vresp.com%252F733045%252F6924ce5f1e%252FARCHIVE%26shortener%3Dbitly%26title%3DLetter%2BFrom%2BBahrain%2BNGOs%2BAhead%2Bof%2BAugust%2B14%2BProtests"><img border="0" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/social_sharing/social_sharing.placeholder.linkedin.png" border="0" /></a> </td> </tr> </table> <p align="center" style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif; 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height: 233px; "></h1><div><br></div><div>This article is also available here:</div><div>http://www.bahrainrights.org/en/node/6286</div><div><br></div><div>and in Arabic here:</div><div>bahrainrights.hopto.org/en/node/6287</div><div><b><br></b></div><h1 class="post-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.381em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; font-family: ff-meta-web-pro-condensed, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); text-align: center; "><b>Joint Open Letter Issued Ahead of August 14 Protests</b></h1><h1 class="post-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.381em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; font-family: ff-meta-web-pro-condensed, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); text-align: center; "><b> To International NGO's, Media, Ally Governments and the UN</b></h1><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; "><br></p><p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; ">In the past few weeks, the human rights situation in Bahrain has rapidly deteriorated ahead of planned mass protests on August 14<sup style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">th</sup>. With many of the country's most prominent Human Rights Defenders behind bars, local NGOs have inadequate resources to keep up with the unfolding situation, and it is challenging for them to ensure the safety of their members.</p><p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; "><br></p><p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; ">Bahraini HRDs should not be left to stand alone. We urge international human rights organizations to attempt to visit Bahrain over the coming week, in order to document and monitor ongoing protests, especially on August 14 when Bahrain is expected to come under lockdown. The government has already declared that all protests in the capital Manama are banned.</p><p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; "><br></p><p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; ">International human rights organizations have done a good job of highlighting the human rights situation in Bahrain, though their physical presence in the country has been lacking due to a state policy of controlled access. Nonetheless, their presence is important, as witnesses and in solidarity with those fighting for justice, human rights, and democracy.</p><p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; "><br></p><p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; ">We call on mainstream media networks to dedicate particular attention to the situation in Bahrain in the build up to August 14 and to send journalists into the country. What happens in the coming week could be critical.</p><p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; "><br></p><p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; ">To the Government of Bahrain's closest allies; Mr. David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Mr. Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, we urge you to remain neutral, if not supportive of the peoples' right to self-determination. This is not a call for intervention, but rather we urge you to live up to claims of ethical foreign policies that take human rights into consideration and to end your active support of the government of Bahrain.</p><p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; "><br></p><p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; ">Finally, we call on the United Nations and its Special Rapporteurs to be proactive and to reiterate the rights of Bahrainis to free speech, freedom of assembly, the right to adequate medical care, and to pressure the authorities to refrain from using force, particularly tear gas and birdshot, ahead of August 14. Public statements reminding those who are responsible of guaranteeing these rights are needed as well as activating direct channels with officials in such positions.</p><p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; "><br></p><p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; ">For the past two and a half years, the Bahraini regime has failed to realize its pledges to implement both the Universal Periodic Review and Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry recommendations. Domestic and international accountability mechanisms have so far failed, and Bahrainis have decided that August 14 is another step in the current struggle for justice.</p><p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; "><br></p><p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; ">We, the undersigned, will be on the ground in Bahrain during this period to monitor and observe the human rights situation. We hope that you will commit time, resources, and effort to support HRDs in the country in any capacity.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; "> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; ">Signed:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; ">Bahrain Center for Human Rights</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; ">Bahrain Human Rights Society</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; ">European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; ">Bahrain Watch</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; ">Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; ">Bahrain Human Rights Observatory</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; "> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; ">CC:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; ">International NGO's:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; ">Human Rights Watch (HRW)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; ">Amnesty International (AI)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; ">International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding: 0px; ">Frontline Defenders</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.647em; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; 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Culture of Impunity</a></strong></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#other" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">NGO & Other News</a></strong></li> </ul><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, registered with the Bahraini Ministry of Labor and Social Services since 2002.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">Despite an order by the authorities in November 2004 to close, the BCHR continues to operate after gaining a wide internal and external support for its struggle to promote human rights in Bahrain.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">For more information, please visit our website:</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4d66e293a/69a31f0425/28963ec615">www.bahrainrights.org</a></p> <!-- end .sidebar1 --></div> <div class="content" style="padding: 10px 0;width: 780px;float: left"> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#E2422D" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="impunity" id="impunity2"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">News Summary</span></h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">In a serious attack on human rights, the National Assembly made several recommendations to the Bahraini national law to restrict freedom of expression, strip dissenting citizens of their citizenship, and increase the punishment for participating in pro-democracy protests to include the death penalty. In addition to this attack on the legislative system, journalists, bloggers and photographers have been subjected to forced disappearances in advance of the pro-democracy demonstrations planned on August 14th. The activist group <strong>Bahrain Watch</strong> also published this week their finding on how the government is targeting twitter users in Bahrain who post comments critical of the government. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">The Acting President of the BCHR, <strong>Maryam Al-Khawaja</strong>, will be traveling to Bahrain on Friday. Several members of her family are currently in prison for their work in human rights, and she has been living in a self-imposed exile to advocate for human rights in Bahrain from abroad. She will spend approximately two weeks in Bahrain. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Read below for details on these stories and more.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#E2422D" valign="center" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 class="h2" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF"><a name="impunity" id="impunity"></a>A Culture of Impunity</h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Hamad%20-%20Khalifa%20-%20Salman.jpg?itok=0ZPzQ-Ap" name="" width="337" height="241" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /><strong>Light-Speed Amendments Made to Implement Anti-Freedoms Recommendations</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">In an attempt to legalize human rights violations, the Bahraini authorities rapidly moved to reform national laws to restrict freedom of expression, and increase the punishment for so-called 'acts of terrorism' including the ability to revoke citizenship and implement the death penalty.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4d66e293a/69a31f0425/db40f31054">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Hussain%20Mansoor%20Kadhem%20cover%20photo.jpg?itok=dJFs_MGg" name="" width="337" height="241" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /><strong>Hussain Kadhem Killed Due to Ministry of Interior's Reckless Driving</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">A citizen was killed while being transported by the police. The officers were driving recklessly in a non-emergency situation. A culture of impunity allows officers to drive dangerously without having to face consequences for their actions.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4d66e293a/69a31f0425/c2eeb79963">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Hussain_Mohamed.jpg?itok=XJPfV3iE" name="" width="337" height="241" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /><strong>Update on Enforced Disappearance of a Blogger and an Award Winning Photojournalist</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">In an escalation against citizen journalists ahead of the planned Tamrraod (Rebellion) protests in Aug 14, photographers, journalists and bloggers have been arrested. Qassim Zainaldeen, Mohammed Hassan and Hussain Hubail have all been subjected to forced disappearance. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4d66e293a/69a31f0425/f04f406c55">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#e10610" style="font-family: Garamond"><h1 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="other" id="other"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">NGO & Other News</span></h1></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Maryam%20Al-Khawaja%20Portrait_0.png?itok=hmU8B0Dq" alt="img" width="307" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>BCHR Acting-President Maryam Al-Khawaja to Travel to Bahrain Friday, August 9th</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">She arrives in Bahrain at 7:05pm Bahrain time on Friday and will be staying there for approximately two weeks. Al-Khawaja will be traveling with her Danish passport, getting a visa at the Bahraini airport, due to the expiration of her Bahraini passport.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4d66e293a/69a31f0425/d4259c4dfc">Link to the full article.</a> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/IPSPY.png?itok=o01Yk3fy" alt="img" width="307" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />The Bahraini security apparatus has been hunting down activists who conceal their true identity online to avoid reprisal or prosecution for criticizing the Government, according to a new project by activist organization Bahrain Watch.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Since October 2012, the Government has jailed eleven netizens for allegedly writing anonymous Tweets that refer to Bahrain's King Hamad using terms such as "dictator" or "fallen one". An eight-month investigation by Bahrain Watch has revealed that the Government apparently identifies these anonymous online critics by sending them malicious IP spy links from a network of Twitter and Facebook accounts impersonating well-known opposition figures or other seemingly friendly individuals. When an individual clicks on an IP spy link, they reveal the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the internet connection they clicked from. The Government can then compel the internet service provider of the IP address to disclose the real name and street address of that internet connection's subscriber.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4d66e293a/69a31f0425/69901bbe7f">Link the full report.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/jawad_fairooz_0.jpg?itok=tiC9Sx2A" alt="img" width="307" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Redress: Detailed Letter on Arrest, Detention & Torture of ex-MP Jawad Fairooz Sent to UN Special Rapporteur</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">REDRESS has written to UN special rapporteurs and the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on human rights to bring Mr Fairooz's case to the attention of the Bahraini authorities.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4d66e293a/69a31f0425/26fba4baef">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/HRW.gif?itok=nj0YXiaZ" alt="img" width="307" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>HRW: Parliament Moves to Curtail Basic Rights</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">The Bahrain parliament's call at an extraordinary meeting on July 28, 2013, to impose a series of emergency measures will severely restrict basic rights. The action would give the authorities excessive powers to act arbitrarily to restrict such rights as freedom of assembly and speech.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4d66e293a/69a31f0425/0da010becc">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/amnesty_logo.png?itok=_b2oeJ5i" alt="img" width="307" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Amnesty Int'l: New Anti-Terrorism Powers Would Pose Further Risk to Human Rights</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Amnesty International warns against the imminent adoption of proposed amendments by the Bahraini authorities to the anti-terrorism legislation as it will lead to further violations of Bahrain's international human rights obligations.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4d66e293a/69a31f0425/ce1a0366a8">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/BPA_0.jpg?itok=ckXMOZZW" alt="img" width="307" height="217" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Bahrain Press Association: The National Assembly's Outputs are 'A National Disaster' and start 'An Open-ended War on Citizenship & the Freedoms of Expression and of Conscience'</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">the London-based association concerned with defending and addressing issues related to Bahraini media and press people, is condemning the outputs of the Bahraini National Assembly.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4d66e293a/69a31f0425/6025ed455a">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/migrantworker.jpg?itok=nY2RsLbB" alt="img" width="294" height="208" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>3 Asian Workers Die From Exposure to Methane in Bahrain</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Three Asian workers died last Tuesday morning in Bahrain, apparently after succumbing to methane gas poisoning while working on pipes inside a nine meter hole, the Interior Ministry said.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4d66e293a/69a31f0425/0a56781fa4">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 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font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-weight: normal"> <font size="3"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; ">01 August 2013</span><br style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; line-height: 14px; "><br style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; line-height: 14px; "></font><div style="text-align: center; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-weight: bold; ">Light-Speed Amendments in Bahrain to Implement Anti-Freedoms Recommendations From National Assembly</span><br style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; line-height: 14px; "><br style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; line-height: 14px; "><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; ">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span><br style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; line-height: 14px; "></font></div><font size="3"><br style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; line-height: 14px; "></font><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">The Bahrain Center for Human Rights is gravely concerned in regards to the Bahraini authorities' actions to legalize human rights violations and crackdown on activists and protesters in anticipation of "Bahrain Tamarod" on August 14th. The government has already rapidly escalated attacks on activists, protesters and whole villages on a daily basis in the form of around-the-clock house raids, dozens of arbitrary arrests, torture and ill-treatment of detainees, convictions and tough sentences.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">Bahraini authorities have taken swift and concerning steps to legalize its violations of human rights abuses and brutal crackdown on activists and protesters. On Sunday 28 July, 2013, the National Assembly held a special session during which many repressive recommendations were agreed upon to restrict freedoms of expression and assembly and issued in just 20 minutes of the ending of the session. This gave the impression that they had been previously prepared. Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa as head of the ruling family, readily accepted all recommendations and called for them to be promptly implemented (read more here <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/6446c76a2e/69a31f0425/115bf87e8e/BahrainCenterforHuma/f3732f894f/TEST/553ce06eeb">http://bahrainrights.org/en/node/6263</a>).</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">In less than 72 hours since the recommendations were made, actions were taken by the authorities to put these recommendations that call for a harsher crackdown on protesters into action.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">On Wednesday 31 July, 2013, two royal decrees were issued to amend laws on the Protection of Society against Acts of Terror and Charity Fundraising regulations, in accordance to the national assembly's recommendations. The amendments on laws of protection from terror acts have provisioned harsher punishment of up to 15 years' imprisonment, the death penalty or life, or revocation of citizenship according to the Terrorism Law. The amended laws stated that article 10 to be changed to: "the punishment of not less than 10 years shall be provisioned to whomever carries out a bombing or attempts to carry out a bombing for terrorism purposes" and "the punishment of execution or life imprisonment if the bombing/ explosion resulted in a death or injury. Imprisonment shall be the punishment of whoever puts or carries in public or private places for the same reason prototypes or models that look like or resemble explosives or firecrackers."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">In addition, Article (24) repeated was amended to "Repeating: In addition to the penalty prescribed of citizenship revocation of the defendants in the crimes stated in articles (5) to (9), (12) and (17) of this law" For the full text of these articles please check <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/6446c76a2e/69a31f0425/d556f8fc73/BahrainCenterforHuma/f3732f894f/TEST/65bfca6f4e/documentUid=8520">https://www.unodc.org/tldb/showDocument.do?documentUid=8520</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">Terrorism has been the go-to accusation of the authorities in Bahrain, the most recent case is of "the February 14 cell" where 50 defendants were accused of terrorism, their photos and names broadcasted on national television before they were taken to. This of course is in violation of Bahrain's own laws, namely Article 246 which prohibits publishing a person's picture before the final verdict and without the authorization of the public prosecution. (Read more:<a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/6446c76a2e/69a31f0425/cbdfc01b94/BahrainCenterforHuma/f3732f894f/TEST/90ffd17848"> http://bahrainrights.org/en/node/6227</a>). With these new amendments, human rights defender Naji Fateel is now facing the possible revocation of his citizenship in case of conviction for "establishing a terrorist group for the purpose of disturbing public security". This is the same situation for the other defendants in the same case who are accused with the same charge or with joining the group, which fall under articles 6 and 9 of the anti-terrorism law. These articles are also widely used against activists, and have been also used against the political opposition leaders and activists in the case of Bahrain 13, though it is not clear yet if the new amendments will be applied to their case as well. (More on <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/6446c76a2e/69a31f0425/28f93029c6/BahrainCenterforHuma/f3732f894f/TEST/6120ca4323">http://bahrainrights.org/en/node/5405</a>)</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong><font size="3">Article 6</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">Life imprisonment shall be the penalty for everyone who forms, establishes, organizes or operates, contrary to the provisions of the law, a society, association, organization, group, gang or a branch of any of the above or undertakes the leadership or command thereof for the purpose of calling for obstructing the enforcement of the provisions of the Construction or the laws or preventing any of the government organizations or public authorities from carrying out their activities or infringes upon the citizens personal freedom or other freedoms or public rights secured by the Constitution, the law or undermines national unity if terrorism is one of the methods used in the realization or implementation of the purposes called for by the society, association, organization, group or gang or any of their branches.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">Imprisonment for a period of no less than 10 years shall be inflicted upon any person who supplies them with weapons, ammunition, explosives, supplies, machinery or information or provides them with premises, accommodation or facilities to cover up, shelter or boarding facilities or conceals or damages items, properties or weapons that may have been used or intended for use in their activities or produced therefrom while being aware of what they call for and their methods in the realization or implementation thereof.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">A prison sentence for a period of no less than 5 years shall be inflicted upon anyone who joins any such societies, associations, organizations, groups or any of their branches or participants in their activities in any manner while being aware of their terrorist objectives.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong><font size="3">Article 9</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">A prison sentence shall be the penalty for each one who runs an organization, society, institution or association established according to the law and exploits his management thereof to advocate the commission of any of the crimes provided for in this Law.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">The new amendment removes the maximum of the 5 year prison sentence under article 17 for "everyone who incites another to commit a crime for the implementation of a terrorist objective even though his acts shall be of no effect." It is important to note here that the law does not define what inciting is or put boundaries to it; therefore it is vague and can be manipulated.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">While the second decree amendment updated the 1956 law of charity fundraising regulations which stated in article (30) that "the public prosecution office may give the order to view and obtain any data or information of accounts, deposits, or safes with banks or other [entities] to reveal the truth of crimes stated in this law." The amendment also stated that all fundraising activities, except those carried out by governmental bodies, have to be authorized through permits requested from the concerned ministry at least two months prior to fundraising, "the request should include the way, period, place and purpose of the fundraising".</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">On a related note, the State Minister for Communication Affairs, Fawaz bin Mohammed AlKhalifa, ordered the immediate implementation of the recommendations related to communication mediums, especially that in respect of the "misuse" of social networks. The Ministry launched a hotline and email for the public to report "any websites or accounts inciting violence and terror acts" allegedly to safeguard national unity and civil peace. However, in the absence of a precise definition of "inciting", it appears that the Ministry is merely calling for another 'name and shame' campaign similar to the one started in 2011 which targeted pro-democracy activists. Observers <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/6446c76a2e/69a31f0425/7e2ea03fb5/BahrainCenterforHuma/f3732f894f/TEST/6472627061">described this act</a> as "a sanctioned witch hunt". In the previous campaign, only activists, political dissidents and protesters were targeted for exercising freedom of expression over social networks and <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/6446c76a2e/69a31f0425/b97b7fd939/BahrainCenterforHuma/f3732f894f/TEST/e10591c16b">more than 106 months of imprisonment were collectively delivered </a>against 12 online users since June 2012. This includes BCHR president, Nabeel Rajab, who is serving prison time for tweeting, five others who were sentenced to 1 year in prison for insulting the king on twitter (see: <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/6446c76a2e/69a31f0425/cde23225f4/BahrainCenterforHuma/f3732f894f/TEST/14a876ee82">http://bahrainrights.org/en/node/6122</a>), Jaffar AlDemistani who was abducted and detained for a few weeks for tweeting about the torture his father was subjected to (see:<a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/6446c76a2e/69a31f0425/53627654da/BahrainCenterforHuma/f3732f894f/TEST/90912c3a36">www.bahrainrights.org/en/node/6188</a>), Mohammed Hassan a blogger whose house was raided and was arrested just recently and many other online users who are either detained or facing charges. On the other hand, there are accounts that have inciting violence since 2011 against pro-democracy people, which was documented in the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry's report (set up and paid for by the king), however, no actions were taken against them until this day. This measure is believed to be an attempt to escalate the attack on freedom of expression over social media in an attempt to further silence people.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">The unelected prime minister of 43 years, Khalifa Bin Salman AlKhalifa, hailed the national assembly and confirmed that the government has to rapidly start the implementation of the recommendations and added that "Anyone in government who cannot achieve these recommendations [to become] reality, we will tell him thank you, as there are many of the youth of this county who are aspiring to this (see:<a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/6446c76a2e/69a31f0425/52d80cb5e6/BahrainCenterforHuma/f3732f894f/TEST/ed34737759">http://www.alwasatnews.com/3980/news/read/797282/1.html</a>)</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">Maryam Al-Khawaja, Acting President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, commented:</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em><font size="3">"With the authorities going to such lengths to escalate the crackdown prior to the Tamarod protests on August 14th, we call on all relevant human rights NGO's, institutions and allies of the Government of Bahrain to step up the pressure to stop the ongoing and further anticipated crackdown. We also call for allowing international observers to enter Bahrain during that period for monitoring and reporting purposes, whether NGO staff and/or journalists. This is an opportunity for the allies of Bahrain, namely the United States and the United Kingdom, to hold their allies to the same standards they hold their non-allies to, for once. This is also a good time to remind the authorities in Bahrain of their responsibility towards the right to free expression and assembly."</font></em></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em><font size="3"><br></font></em></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">The government, headed by Hamad Bin Isa, Salman Bin Hamad and Khalifa Bin Salman, has presented a united front in this escalated campaign of violations against freedoms and in demanding that the recommendations be executed immediately. This comes at a time when, after almost two years of the BICI recommendations, and more than a year after the recommendations of Universal Periodic Review at the United Nations, they continue to fail in implementing them.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong><font size="3">The BCHR also calls upon the United States, the United Kingdom and all other allies to put pressure on the Government of Bahrain to:</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong><font size="3"><br></font></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">- Amend all laws so that they are in accordance to international standards and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">- Immediately end the crackdown against those who practice their right to free expression and assembly.<br style="line-height: 14px; "></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">- Allow people to assemble and protest according to the UDHR on the 14th of August.<br style="line-height: 14px; "></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">- Immediately and unconditionally release all political prisoners.<br style="line-height: 14px; "></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">- Immediately start the implementation of all BICI and UPR recommendations.<br style="line-height: 14px; "></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">- Hold all those responsible for human rights violations, especially in high positions in government, accountable.<br style="line-height: 14px; "></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3">- Allow access to the United Nation's Special Rapporteurs to Bahrain for monitoring and documentation purposes.</font></p><font size="3"><br style="line-height: 14px; "><br style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; line-height: 14px; "><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; ">Link to the full article:</span><br style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; line-height: 14px; "><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/6446c76a2e/69a31f0425/4b3ee420a7">bahrainrights.hopto.org/en/node/6274</a></font><br style="line-height: 14px; "><br></div> <div style="clear: both; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; background-color: transparent; width: 100%; border-style: none; border-width: 0; border-color: black; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-weight: normal"> </div> <div style="clear: both; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; background-color: transparent; width: 100%; border-style: none; border-width: 0; border-color: black; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-weight: normal"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table></div> <br> <br style="clear: both;"> <hr> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td> <font face="arial,verdana" size="1"> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please reply to this message with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line or simply click on the following link: <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/u?6446c76a2e/69a31f0425/mlpftw">Unsubscribe</a> </font> </td> </tr> </table> <hr> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td> <font face="arial,verdana" size="1"> Bahrain Center for Human Rights<br/> Street BB 2212<br/> Manama, M 2001<br/> BH<br/> <p> <a href="http://www.verticalresponse.com/content/pm_policy.html" target="_blank">Read</a> the VerticalResponse marketing policy. </p> </font> </td> <td align="right"> <a href="http://www.verticalresponse.com/landing/ef/?np/6446c76a2e&utm_campaign=footer&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=footer" target="_blank"> <img border="0" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/np_pwrby_vr_logo_126.gif" alt="Non-Profits Email Free with VerticalResponse!"/> </a> </td> </tr> </table> <img alt="" src="http://cts.vresp.com/o.gif?6446c76a2e/69a31f0425/mlpftw"/> BAHRAIN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01457943964785689558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7511930530400846695.post-45782038621954708852013-07-29T13:30:00.001+03:002013-07-31T12:49:19.837+03:00National Assembly Attacks Rights - Weekly Newsletter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The government of Bahrain laid the groundwork in the National Assembly to intensify the crackdown on pro-democracy protests. Recommendations were made to further erode the basic rights of assembly and free expression. Meanwhile, the house raids continued last week throughout Bahrain. The number of arbitrary arrests has rapidly escalated, and the BCHR documented that there are approximately 2500 political prisoners currently in detention. </div>
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The use of the pellet shotguns has also escalated, leaving at least two people critically injured. Prison conditions remain in violation of international standards, and prisoners do not receive the medical treatment that they need.</div>
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On July 23, Ali Mansoor Ahmed AlQassab was reportedly brutally arrested after masked men in civilian clothing accompanied by security forces raided his house while he was there alone. Ali is 18 years old, and suffers from a severe case of sickle cell disease.</div>
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The Bahraini National Assembly is being used as a tool to further repress citizen's rights. </div>
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The BCHR has recently documented several cases in which people with special needs got arrested without a warrant, were beaten, and then denied adequate medical care despite receiving medical and court orders in some cases. </div>
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<a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c2577f8b6c/69a31f0425/5e12ed6e13">Link to the full article.</a></div>
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Bahraini citizens, including human rights defenders and journalists, have been victims of the judicial system where trials do not meet the international standards or follow due process. Human rights defender Naji Fateel, and journalist Nazeeha Saeed, are two examples of the unfair judicial system.</div>
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Al Akhbar English news website reports that Ali Saad, who lost his eyesight as a result of a car explosion in 2009, has been detained for over two months. The 28 year old began a hunger strike Wednesday to protest lack of adequate treatment in Bahraini jails.</div>
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The Bahrain Center for Human Rights has documented an alarming 60 illegal arrests, 140 shotgun injuries, and more than 150 house raids in the just the last five days. The increasing crackdown is coming in the wake of an alledged bomb blast outside of a mosque. Since this incident, the authorities have allowed the police to apply collective punishment with impunity. </div>
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Meanwhile, prison conditions are steadily worsening. Family members are harassed when conducting visits, and prisoners do not receive adequate medical care despite serious injuries. </div>
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The government is promoting a sectarian divide in society by allowing hate speech and using the police to attack specific religious sites. In the last 5 days, the BCHR has documented 60 illegal arrestes, 140 shotgun injuries, and 150+ house raids. </div>
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The detainee Rihanna Al-Mosawi informed the judge in her trial that she was stripped of her clothes twice while being interrogated at Riffa police station. The Judge merely noted down the complaint as a 'morally improper treatment'.</div>
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Individuals are increasingly reporting serious violations to their rights while attempting to visit their imprisoned family members in the Dry Dock prison.</div>
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Thirty-one individuals signed the statement which calls for an end to the campaign of harassment against Mr. Rajab, who has now been imprisoned for more than one year.</div>
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BAHRAIN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01457943964785689558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7511930530400846695.post-56181275521781826032013-07-15T13:39:00.001+03:002013-07-31T12:49:37.662+03:00Report Launch on Sickle Cell Disease - Weekly Newsletter<div class="container" style="width: 960px;background-color: #FFF;margin: 0 auto"> <div class="header" style="background-color: #FFF"><a href="#"></a><a href="#"></a><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/1f88bd5d1/www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/BCHR%20Logo2.png" width="850" hspace="20" /><a href="#"></a><a href="#"></a><a href="#"></a> <!-- end .header --></div> <div class="sidebar1" style="float: left;width: 180px;background-color: #f7f7f7;padding-bottom: 10px"> <ul class="nav" style="padding: 0;margin: 0;border: 5;border-color: #000;list-style: none;border-top: 1px solid #666;margin-bottom: 15px"><li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"> <div align="center">Issue No. 54 </div> </li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"> <div align="center">15 July 2013 </div> </li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><a href="#newssummary" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF"> <strong>News Summary</strong></a></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#impunity" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">A Culture of Impunity</a></strong></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#trials" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">Trials and Prison Sentences</a></strong></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#other" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">NGO & Other News</a></strong></li> </ul><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, registered with the Bahraini Ministry of Labor and Social Services since 2002.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">Despite an order by the authorities in November 2004 to close, the BCHR continues to operate after gaining a wide internal and external support for its struggle to promote human rights in Bahrain.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">For more information, please visit our website:</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/a716553f63/69a31f0425/c144472a27">www.bahrainrights.org</a></p> <!-- end .sidebar1 --></div> <div class="content" style="padding: 10px 0;width: 780px;float: left"> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#E2422D" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="impunity" id="impunity2"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">News Summary</span></h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">The Bahrain Center for Human Rights published a new report this week, entitled "Sickle Cell Disease And The Government Crackdown in Bahrain" - the report investigates the government's political treatment of sickle cell patients, and describes how the effects of teargas inhalation can cause death in patients with the sickle cell disease. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">In the prison system last week, torture allegations from political prisoners were presented in trial, along with clear evidence of their mistreatment, but it was ignored by the presiding judge in their case. Detainee Rihana Almousawi's testimony that she was stripped and threatened with rape has led to large protests across the country - there has also been a surge in injuries and arrests. The Prime Minister was recorded congratulating a police officer who was charged, but acquitted, of torturing prisoners. And Nabeel Rajab, President of the BCHR, marked one year in prison last week - he still has one year to serve on charges relating to freedom of expression. <br /><br /> Officials are already warning citizens not to participate in Tamarrod demonstrations planned for August 14th. <br /></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Read below for details on these stories and more.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#E2422D" valign="center" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 class="h2" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF"><a name="impunity" id="impunity"></a>A Culture of Impunity</h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Untitled-1.png?itok=lB19-8oK" name="" width="320" height="232" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" />The BCHR releases a new report on sickle cell disease, and the government crackdown on patient treatment in Bahrain. This report explores the way in which the government has, in some cases, withheld healthcare as a form of punishment, and is further complicating treatment for patients with new policies within the hospitals. The report also discusses how the government's use of teargas effects patients with sickle cell disease, and outlines several instance of death that resulted from teargas inhalation. </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/a716553f63/69a31f0425/64556d3786">Link to the full report.</a></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Khalifa%20and%20bin%20huwail_0.jpg?itok=c6AzYnuX" alt="img" name="" width="320" height="232" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><strong>Prime Minister to Officer Acquitted on Torture Charges: "Thank you for your work"</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">The BCHR is gravely concerned over a video which was published recently online showing Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, the world's longest-serving unelected Prime Minister of 43 years, visiting an acquitted torturer to thank him and guarantee impunity. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/a716553f63/69a31f0425/1769eabc0a">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#e10610" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="trials" id="trials"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">Trials and Prison Sentences</span></h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/najitor.jpg?itok=Ov63I_K7" alt="img" width="317" height="200" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>First Hearing of the '14th of February Coalition Cell' Case Lacks the Most Basic Elements of a Fair Trial</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Defendants showed the judge marks of torture on their bodies, and reported severe instances of torture, but the judge refused to launch an investigation.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/a716553f63/69a31f0425/02ab758b8e">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/a716553f63/69a31f0425/2c7878d064">Further information on the treatment of Naji Fateel.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/detainees_1.jpg?itok=TKMJ6ILh" alt="img" width="317" height="200" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Political Prisoners Prevented From Attending Funeral of Their Close Relatives</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">There have been several recent cases of depriving political prisoners from the right to temporary release to attend the funeral of their relatives. Some of the recent cases included Naji Fateel, Mahmood Albdulsahib, and Hassan Abdulghani.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/a716553f63/69a31f0425/f8ed1f3b44">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Nabeel%20Rajab.jpg?itok=h4vt837J" alt="img" width="317" height="200" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>HRF: Bahrain No More Stable as Nabeel Rajab Marks One Year in Custody</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">BCHR President Nabeel Rajab marked one year in prison on 11 July 2013, and Brian Dooley of Human Rights First comments on the instability the imprisonment of such figures causes in the country.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/a716553f63/69a31f0425/e0f67799ba">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#e10610" style="font-family: Garamond"><h1 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="other" id="other"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">NGO & Other News</span></h1></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/protest.jpg?itok=vM2WJYlb" alt="img" width="280" height="197" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>The Struggle for Democracy Continues</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Nadeen Shakeer writes in ahramonline that in spite of a dedicated opposition, Bahrain's pro-democracy movement is threatened by rising human rights abuses since 2011.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/a716553f63/69a31f0425/d1a310becb">Link to the article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p 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style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"> <div align="center">Issue No. 53 </div> </li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"> <div align="center">08 July 2013 </div> </li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><a href="#newssummary" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF"> <strong>News Summary</strong></a></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#impunity" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">A Culture of Impunity</a></strong></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#trials" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">Trials and Prison Sentences</a></strong></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#other" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">NGO & Other News</a></strong></li> </ul><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, registered with the Bahraini Ministry of Labor and Social Services since 2002.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">Despite an order by the authorities in November 2004 to close, the BCHR continues to operate after gaining a wide internal and external support for its struggle to promote human rights in Bahrain.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">For more information, please visit our website:</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f9aca5cb66/69a31f0425/006437a69e">www.bahrainrights.org</a></p> <!-- end .sidebar1 --></div> <div class="content" style="padding: 10px 0;width: 780px;float: left"> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#E2422D" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="impunity" id="impunity2"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">News Summary</span></h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">The government attacks on human rights defenders continued last week in Bahrain - <strong>Naji Fateel</strong> presented the judge with evidence of his torture during a hearing, and <strong>Said Yousif Al-Muhafdha</strong> came under judicial attack yet again on charges related to his twitter activity. The BCHR released a report on the destruction of mosques and attacks on religion, while an article in Foreign Policy last week reminds us that the sectarian divide in Bahrain is not genuine, and only the repression is sectarian.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Following the mass protests in Egypt that began on June 30th, a call for Tamarrod, or rebellion, has been widely circulated in Bahrain and is to begin on August 14th. Following this announcement, the authorities claimed to have found a stash of weapons, and also claimed the death of a police office - the announcement led to the lock-down of the villages of Sitrah and Tubli. The BCHR reminds the authorities that an independent and transparent investigation of these incidents must occur at once, and that such reports are not justification for collective punishment with teargas and arbitrary arrests. The BCHR will release a full statement about these incidents later this week. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Read below for details on these stories and more.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#E2422D" valign="center" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 class="h2" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF"><a name="impunity" id="impunity"></a>A Culture of Impunity</h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/huwail%20-%20al%20khalifa.jpg?itok=1E6MxFen" name="" width="320" height="232" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" />On 1 July 2013, the third higher criminal court acquitted Lt-Colonel "Mubarak ben Huwail", Director of Drug Detection, on charges of torturing doctors Basem Dhaif, Ghasan Dhaif, Ahmed Omran and Sayed Marhoon Alweda'ai during their detention in March and April 2011. The court also acquitted Lieutenant "Noora Bint Ebrahim Alkhalifa", a member of the ruling family, from the charges of torturing female doctors Zahra AlSammak and Kholod AlDerazi during their detention in March and April 2011.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f9aca5cb66/69a31f0425/3bda6797f3">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/mosque4_0.jpg?itok=DTyQz2Ae" alt="img" name="" width="320" height="232" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" />In 2011, the Government of Bahrain demolished numerous Shiaa mosques and places of worship. Despite Hamad Bin Isa AlKhalifa's promises to rebuild them, the authorities have decided to turn the site of one of these demolished mosques' into a public park. This is a clear act and an attempt to create further sectarian tensions against one of the main component of the Bahraini society and an attempt to remove their historical links to the land.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f9aca5cb66/69a31f0425/dcd0932a22">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/noaimi.jpg?itok=HJbF9ABO" alt="img" name="" width="320" height="232" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" />Following the mass pro-democracy protests of February 14 2011, students were subjected to systematic violations including but not limited to: arrests, torture, and suspension from schools and universities merely for their political and/or religious beliefs. The mentioned violations did not stop, and high school students are still being subjected to discrimination in scholarships distribution, based on their background and personal views.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f9aca5cb66/69a31f0425/2b3efc24d0">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/873f2d2de/www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/Screen%20Shot%202013-07-08%20at%201.33.13%20PM.png" alt="img" name="" width="320" height="232" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" />A video that interviews several survivors of torture was recently uploaded online. The survivors describe the brutal way in which they are arrested, and the treatment they recieve in the prison system.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f9aca5cb66/69a31f0425/9decefc0d7">Link to the full video.</a></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#e10610" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="trials" id="trials"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">Trials and Prison Sentences</span></h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/jalila%20mahdi_0.jpg?itok=TA_qfZuE" alt="img" width="317" height="200" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />The President of the Bahrain Teachers Society, <strong>Mahdi AbuDeeb</strong>, had his appeal rejected on 01 July 2013 by the Court of Cassation, alongside with the Vice-President <strong>Ms Jalila Al-Salman</strong>. They were sentenced to 10 and 3 years, respectively, in prison for calling a teachers strike.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f9aca5cb66/69a31f0425/73ac132fd2">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Naji-Fateel-with-Margaret-Sekaggya-300x203.jpg?itok=5vSy9ny3" alt="img" width="317" height="200" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />On July 2nd, a member of the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights, <strong>Naji Fateel</strong>, was presented in court to have his pre-trial detention renewed, and he removed part of his clothing to show the evidence of torture on his back to the judge. </p> <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f9aca5cb66/69a31f0425/3d031af9b7">Link to the full article.</a> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Said%20Yousif.jpg?itok=cq6V4CMx" alt="img" width="317" height="200" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Sayed Yousif Al-Muhafdha</strong>, the BCHR's Acting Vice President and Head of Documentation Unit, is facing judicial attacks again as the public prosecution attempts to appeal his acquittal on charges related to a tweet earlier this year. Al-Muhafdha's ruling hearing was postponed to 12 September 2013.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f9aca5cb66/69a31f0425/89cb88dcaf">Link to the full article. </a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">An interview with Sayed Yousif can be found via the following link:</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f9aca5cb66/69a31f0425/b30ea9d7ad">Link to video interview with Front Line Defenders and Sayed Yousif</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">The BCHR has received reports that the family members of those charged in the alleged Feb14 terrorist cell have been subjected to a variety of harassments, including humiliating body searches, which have in some cases amounted to sexual molestation. In some instances the prison authorities have placed a metal and glass barrier between the visitors and the prisoner, which makes verbal communication impossible. Some prisoners have not been allowed to receive family visits, and others have refused to receive visits while such humiliating searches are in place.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/feacad98e/bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/Screen%20Shot%202013-07-08%20at%201.26.33%20PM.png" alt="img" width="317" height="200" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />The wife of political prisoner Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, describes his brutal arrest and other violations in London last week.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f9aca5cb66/69a31f0425/bc34c0d67e">Link to the full video.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#e10610" style="font-family: Garamond"><h1 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="other" id="other"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">NGO & Other News</span></h1></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/zainab.jpg?itok=-j6NOSXP" alt="img" width="280" height="197" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Zainab Al-Khawaja</strong> writes from prison to narrate a few days in the life of an imprisoned activist, and describes the absurd treatment that prisoners are subjected to in general. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f9aca5cb66/69a31f0425/407eae7e18">Link to the full article. </a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/reuters.jpg?itok=GnVGEQeM" alt="img" width="280" height="197" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /><strong>Reza Aslan</strong> writes in Foreign Policy a compelling letter about "Bahrain's Fake Sectarian War", and highlights the story of <strong>Mohamed al-Buflasa</strong>, the first political prisoner from the 2011 pro-democracy movement.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f9aca5cb66/69a31f0425/0ce9eb0e80">Link to the full article. </a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 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style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"> <div align="center">Issue No. 52 </div> </li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"> <div align="center">01 July 2013 </div> </li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><a href="#newssummary" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF"> <strong>News Summary</strong></a></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#impunity" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">A Culture of Impunity</a></strong></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#trials" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">Trials and Prison Sentences</a></strong></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#other" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">NGO & Other News</a></strong></li> </ul><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, registered with the Bahraini Ministry of Labor and Social Services since 2002.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">Despite an order by the authorities in November 2004 to close, the BCHR continues to operate after gaining a wide internal and external support for its struggle to promote human rights in Bahrain.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">For more information, please visit our website:</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/1a6afd787e/69a31f0425/7bd8fa7793">www.bahrainrights.org</a></p> <!-- end .sidebar1 --></div> <div class="content" style="padding: 10px 0;width: 780px;float: left"> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#E2422D" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="impunity" id="impunity2"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">News Summary</span></h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Last week, on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the BCHR published a report on torture occurring in Bahrain over the last 12 months, and another report on the worsening situation within the prison system. The government continued its policy of impunity for abusers, and the decision to acquit the police officer accused of torturing journalist Nazeeha Saeed was upheld. As well, a teenager was sentenced to prison for insulting the King via twitter.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Several NGOs released statements last week, linked below, about the deteriorating situation in Bahrain.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Read below for details on these stories and more.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#E2422D" valign="center" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 class="h2" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF"><a name="impunity" id="impunity"></a>A Culture of Impunity</h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/torture2.jpg?itok=lCIxKQpu" name="" width="350" height="250" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" />On the <strong>International Day in Support of Victims of Torture</strong>, the BCHR expressed grave concern over the ongoing systematic torture in Bahrain with full impunity for the violators. Over the past year, the BCHR has documented dozens of torture cases, inside and outside formal detention centres, from the moment of arrest and at times even after receiving a sentence. Torture in Bahrain usually occurs in the dark, during times of enforced disappearance. Not only has no official been held accountable for torture, some of the violators were promoted.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/1a6afd787e/69a31f0425/0621bfe7a0">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/nazeeha-saeed-france-24.jpg?itok=gwUdSd-D" alt="img" name="" width="350" height="250" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /><strong>Reporters Without Borders</strong> and <strong>Media Legal Defense Initiative</strong> condemn last week's decision by a Manama appeal court to uphold Police Lt. Sarah Al-Moosa's acquittal on charges of torturing and mistreating <strong>Nazeeha Saeed</strong>, the Bahrain correspondent for France 24 and Radio Monte Carlo Doualiya. </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/1a6afd787e/69a31f0425/2e941238cf">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#e10610" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="trials" id="trials"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">Trials and Prison Sentences</span></h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Ali_Alshofa%201.jpg?itok=fEAsQwz3" alt="img" width="317" height="200" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />On June 25th, the lower criminal court headed by a member of the ruling family, Shaikh Rashid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa, sentenced a high school student, Ali Faisal Alshofa (17 years old), to 1 year in prison for insulting the King on Twitter. Ali was first arrested in a house raid at dawn on 12 March 2013. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/1a6afd787e/69a31f0425/dcfdfdcf5b">Link to the full story.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/prison-jaw.jpg?itok=iDowektl" alt="img" width="317" height="200" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />The BCHR issued a report following the increasing reports of abuses that are coming out of Jaw Prison. The BCHR receives daily reports of violations against health, arbitrary solitary confinement, denial of contact with family, access to medical care, denial of right to the Bahraini law of early release, as well as other restrictions and harassments. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/1a6afd787e/69a31f0425/ac4efffa9e">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/default_images/pic_default.png?itok=FGRyk057" alt="img" width="317" height="200" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Following the mass pro-democracy protests of February 14 2011, students have been subjected to systematic violations including but not limited to: arrests, torture, and suspension from schools and universities merely for their political and/or religious beliefs. The mentioned violations did not stop, and high school students are still being subjected to discrimination in scholarships distribution, based on their background and personal views.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/1a6afd787e/69a31f0425/93d233eb8b">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#e10610" style="font-family: Garamond"><h1 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="other" id="other"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">NGO & Other News</span></h1></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/oecd.png?itok=s92GqHc9" alt="img" width="350" height="200" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">A complaint filed with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development against Gamma International, a UK-based company accused of selling surveillance spyware for governments, will proceed and has been accepted for consideration, the UK National Contact Point for the OECD announced.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/1a6afd787e/69a31f0425/f15e52958b">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/ngos.png?itok=GIeUVlY_" alt="img" width="350" height="200" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">The EU should use its ministerial meeting with the Gulf Cooperation Council, due to take place on 30 June 2013, to call for the release of those "currently detained and imprisoned for peacefully exercising their rights" according to a new joint statement issued by six human rights organisations including Front Line Defenders.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/1a6afd787e/69a31f0425/3cfa1bf4d7">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/pen.png?itok=izsS6a0E" alt="img" width="350" height="200" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">A call to action from PEN International was issued last week, asking individuals to write to their Minister of Foreign Affairs about the ongoing attacks on freedom of expression.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/1a6afd787e/69a31f0425/0f9d58871f">Link to the full article. </a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p 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#666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"> <div align="center">Issue No. 51 </div> </li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"> <div align="center">24 June 2013 </div> </li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><a href="#newssummary" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF"> <strong>News Summary</strong></a></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#impunity" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">A Culture of Impunity</a></strong></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#trials" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">Trials and Prison Sentences</a></strong></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#other" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">NGO & Other News</a></strong></li> </ul><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, registered with the Bahraini Ministry of Labor and Social Services since 2002.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">Despite an order by the authorities in November 2004 to close, the BCHR continues to operate after gaining a wide internal and external support for its struggle to promote human rights in Bahrain.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">For more information, please visit our website:</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/aa972af83f/69a31f0425/5bb9c7613d">www.bahrainrights.org</a></p> <!-- end .sidebar1 --></div> <div class="content" style="padding: 10px 0;width: 780px;float: left"> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#E2422D" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="impunity" id="impunity2"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">News Summary</span></h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">This week, on 25 June, Bahrain will host the European Union and Gulf Cooperation Council, Joint Council and Ministerial meeting in Manama. This meeting will be set against a background of continuing human rights abuses, and the harassment of human rights defenders. The judicial harassment of Mohammed Al-Maskati continues, and Jffrar Al-Demstani was arrested after posting tweets about abuses in the prison system.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Read below for details on these stories and more.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#E2422D" valign="center" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 class="h2" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF"><a name="impunity" id="impunity"></a>A Culture of Impunity</h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Maskati_0.png?itok=YPX6opxG" name="" width="350" height="250" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" />Human rights defender <strong>Mohammed Al-Maskati</strong> is being judicially harassed by the Bahraini authorities for his work on charges that violate his right to freedom of expression. On 19 June, he appeared in court to face charges of 'participation in illegal protests'. </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/aa972af83f/69a31f0425/c9f6e3737c">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/jafar.jpg?itok=lCmqpieT" alt="img" name="" width="350" height="250" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" /></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">The authorities have kidnapped <strong>Jaffar Al-Demstani</strong> for posting tweets about the torture and denial of medical attention for his father, <strong>Ebrahim Al-Demstani</strong>, a medical nurse, who is in prison for treating protesters during the 2011 government crackdown.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/aa972af83f/69a31f0425/a6ee4cf5f8">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#e10610" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="trials" id="trials"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">Trials and Prison Sentences</span></h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/5002.jpg?itok=syTac0hn" alt="img" width="350" height="200" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />Human rights defenders and activists are bring harassed and detained in prison for months on end for their work: pictured left are Ms. <strong>Masooma Al Sayed</strong>, Ms<strong>. Zainab Al Khawaja </strong>and Mr. <strong>Naji Fateel</strong>. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">The Bahrain Center for Human Rights, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), express their deep concern over the sentencing of three human rights defenders to prison on 22 May 2013.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/aa972af83f/69a31f0425/b0ed86eda6">Link to the full article. </a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#e10610" style="font-family: Garamond"><h1 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="other" id="other"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">NGO & Other News</span></h1></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Untitled-1.jpg?itok=Aer6273k" alt="img" width="350" height="200" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" /></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">A joint letter released by the BCHR and the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights asks for the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to take concrete action during the upcomming EU-GCC meeting, and call for the release of political prisoners.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/aa972af83f/69a31f0425/e2d06ef162">Link to the full article.</a> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/hrw_association.png?itok=W6nMwW5n" alt="img" width="350" height="200" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />New laws and lengthy jail terms for activists have put freedom of association in Bahrain under severe threat, according to a new report from <strong>Human Rights Watch</strong>. Bahraini authorities have left hardly any space for peaceful political dissent. Through a mix of restrictive laws and abusive policies, the government is sending a clear message that it will not tolerate calls for reform that challenge the ruling family's monopoly on power.</p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/aa972af83f/69a31f0425/200fe7ca04">Link to the full report.</a></p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <!-- end .content --></div> <div class="footer" style="padding: 10px 0;background-color: #f7f7f7;position: relative;clear: both;text-align: center"> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">The Bahrain Center for Human Rights</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">Dronningsgade 14, 1420 Copenhagen, Denmark</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/aa972af83f/69a31f0425/13f80197c2">www.bahrainrights.org</a></p> <!-- end .footer --></div> <!-- end .container --></div> </p> <br> <br style="clear: both;"> <hr> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td> <font face="arial,verdana" size="1"> <a href="http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/733045/aa972af83f/289728953/69a31f0425/">Click to view this email in a browser</a> <br/><br/> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please reply to this message with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line or simply click on the following link: <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/u?aa972af83f/69a31f0425/mlpftw">Unsubscribe</a> </font> </td> </tr> </table> <hr> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td> <font face="arial,verdana" size="1"> Bahrain Center for Human Rights<br/> Street BB 2212<br/> Manama, M 2001<br/> BH<br/> <p> <a href="http://www.verticalresponse.com/content/pm_policy.html" target="_blank">Read</a> the VerticalResponse marketing policy. </p> </font> </td> <td align="right"> <a href="http://www.verticalresponse.com/landing/ef/?np/aa972af83f" target="_blank"> <img border="0" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/np_pwrby_vr_logo_126.gif" alt="Non-Profits Email Free with VerticalResponse!"/> </a> </td> </tr> </table> <img alt="" src="http://cts.vresp.com/o.gif?aa972af83f/69a31f0425/mlpftw"/> BAHRAIN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01457943964785689558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7511930530400846695.post-70854386712099502582013-06-17T16:58:00.001+03:002013-07-31T12:48:31.366+03:00Report Launch: Violations Against Children - Weekly Newsletter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Bahrain Center for Human Rights releases a report today entitled <strong>Children Under Attack: Violations Against the Convention of the Rights of the Child in Bahrain</strong> which details many of the widespread abuses fostered by a rampant culture of impunity. <br /><br /> A video was released this week of a police officer extracting a confession from a nervous and shirtless young man, and <strong>Muneer Habib</strong> was also reportedly forced into making a confession after he was arrested at dawn in a raid on his home.<br /><br /> In Berlin this week, a member of the royal family - who has several torture allegations against him - threatened protesters during an athletic event. </div>
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In a chilling video, a police officer extracts what appears to be a forced confession from a shirtless young man named <strong>Hussain Jameel Jafer Ali Marhoon.</strong> Hussain has visible injuries on his back (seen at the end of the video) and appears nervous during the interrogation. </div>
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A member of the Bahraini royal family, and Commander of the Royal Guard, <strong>Nasser bin Hamad</strong>, has reportedly threatened protesters during an athletic event in Germany. The Prince has several torture allegations against him from other incidents.</div>
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BAHRAIN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01457943964785689558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7511930530400846695.post-81385031073491874622013-06-10T14:23:00.001+03:002013-06-10T14:33:50.884+03:00CP in Washington, Abuses in Bahrain - Weekly Newsletter<div class="container" style="width: 960px;background-color: #FFF;margin: 0 auto"> <div class="header" style="background-color: #FFF"><a href="#"></a><a href="#"></a><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/1f88bd5d1/www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/BCHR%20Logo2.png" width="850" hspace="20" /><a href="#"></a><a href="#"></a><a href="#"></a> <!-- end .header --></div> <div class="sidebar1" style="float: left;width: 180px;background-color: #f7f7f7;padding-bottom: 10px"> <ul class="nav" style="padding: 0;margin: 0;border: 5;border-color: #000;list-style: none;border-top: 1px solid #666;margin-bottom: 15px"><li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"> <div align="center">Issue No. 49 </div> </li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"> <div align="center">10 June 2013 </div> </li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><a href="#newssummary" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF"> <strong>News Summary</strong></a></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#impunity" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">A Culture of Impunity</a></strong></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#trials" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">Trials and Prison Sentences</a></strong></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#other" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">NGO & Other News</a></strong></li> </ul><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, registered with the Bahraini Ministry of Labor and Social Services since 2002.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">Despite an order by the authorities in November 2004 to close, the BCHR continues to operate after gaining a wide internal and external support for its struggle to promote human rights in Bahrain.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">For more information, please visit our website:</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4fdea8de2/69a31f0425/ef2185d5c9">www.bahrainrights.org</a></p> <!-- end .sidebar1 --></div> <div class="content" style="padding: 10px 0;width: 780px;float: left"> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#E2422D" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="impunity" id="impunity2"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">News Summary</span></h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">In clear signs that the reforms have not had a significant impact in Bahrain, house raids are continuing as they have been for the last two years, and a growing number of female pro-democracy activists have been imprisoned. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Articles from across the web below detail the police abuses in Bahrain and the severe economic inequality that divides society. At a time when the Bahraini Crown Prince held meetings with senior members of the US government, including President Obama, Kip Hale writes that "juxtaposing U.S. support for accountability in Syria next to its lack of action in Bahrain is more than just an embarrassing hypocrisy".</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Read below for details on these stories and more.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#E2422D" valign="center" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 class="h2" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF"><a name="impunity" id="impunity"></a>A Culture of Impunity</h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4fdea8de2/69a31f0425/56e774a6b9/itok=s-ZpkG6w" name="" width="350" height="250" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" />In another sign that reforms in Bahrain have not had a significant impact, the illegal house raids conducted by the security forces continue in exactly the same manner as described in the 2011 BICI report. </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/house1.jpg?itok=s-ZpkG6w">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#e10610" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="trials" id="trials"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">Trials and Prison Sentences</span></h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/all%20four.jpg?itok=Bkp7d8_F" alt="img" width="350" height="200" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />The number of women detained in Bahraini prisons continues to grow as the crackdown on pro-democracy activists continues. The BCHR describes the mistreatment of women in several recent cases including that of Khadija Saeed, Ashwaq Al Maqabi, Siddiqa Al-Basri, Rayhanna Al-Mosawi, Nafeesa Al-Asfoor, and Nadia Ali among others. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4fdea8de2/69a31f0425/ff912054dd">Link to the full article.</a> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/ali%20alsingace%202.jpg?itok=WL7LIu7a" alt="img" width="300" height="200" hspace="15" border="5" align="right" /></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Ali Al-Singace, who is currently serving a life sentence in prison, has been transferred to solitary confinement following severe beating and torture by the authorities, instead of being transferred to the hospital for medical attention. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4fdea8de2/69a31f0425/80df298aaa">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#e10610" style="font-family: Garamond"><h1 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="other" id="other"></a><span class="h2" style="font-family: Garamond;font-size: 24px;color: #FFF">NGO & Other News</span></h1></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/4af9319d4/www.yourmiddleeast.com/media/news/images/2013/image1370384839-15568-PlaceID-0_s660x390.jpg" alt="img" width="350" height="200" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />Lisa Barrington chronicles another ordinary day of protests in Bahrain for Your Middle East. She witnessed "a pack of police with a pack of dogs pursuing a group of girls". These unofficial protests are a daily occurence in Bahrain.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4fdea8de2/69a31f0425/66a9d9934c">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/Maryam.jpg?itok=4rv7jsou" alt="img" width="300" height="200" hspace="15" border="5" align="right" />Vice profiles BCHR Acting President Maryam Al-Khawaja and </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4fdea8de2/69a31f0425/6323be1ed6">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">And Maryam speaks at a TEDxSOAS event in January.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <center><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UfOMjm3tezs?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></center> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4fdea8de2/69a31f0425/6ebf9fa76a">Link to the video.</a></p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/3bcb62b2c/cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/hires/2009/globalpostco.jpg" alt="img" width="350" border="5" align="right" hspace="15" /><strong>Joshua Eaton</strong> writes in the Global Post about Bahrain's quest to be the next Dubai, and notes that "for Bahrainis thirsty for greater equality and political reform — the disenfranchised Shia minority, the destitute migrant workers, the disaffected young poets and radicals — that vision is about as satisfying as a glass of saltwater." </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4fdea8de2/69a31f0425/e83a483fe6">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/34ba315f7/www.redrocketmedia.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/logo-huffington-post1.jpeg" alt="img" width="350" border="5" align="left" hspace="15" />Kris Hermes writes in the Huffington Post about John Timoney's two years spent as a Special Advisor on Policing to Bahrain's Ministry of Interior. His practices led to untold civil rights violations, for which he has not been held accountable. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4fdea8de2/69a31f0425/f0812739f1/utm_hp_ref=tw">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/3f3d04048/www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/Screen%20Shot%202013-06-09%20at%201.44.41%20PM.png" alt="img" width="350" border="5" align="left" hspace="15" /></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Twenty members of the United States Congress signed a letter addressed to the King of Bahrain to express their disappointment in the government's recent rejection of the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4fdea8de2/69a31f0425/1643a5d757">Link to the full letter.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: 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style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/fef78701c/enpi-info.eu/img/news/20130527PHT10568_original.jpg" alt="img" width="350" border="5" align="left" hspace="15" /></p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">A seminar was held in Brussels last week to discuss the EU's relationship with the MENA region two years after the popular uprisings.</p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/c4fdea8de2/69a31f0425/0f62ffd6ed">Link to the seminar programme and background info.</a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 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his son were kidnapped; their family expressed deep concern due to the lack of information for hours. Later, it was announced, police is accusing the father and the son with hiding Redhah AlGhasra in their house and they have weapons in their garage. ₂</p> <p class="MsoNormal">A letter from the detainee Aqeel Hassan Jassim describing the prison condition and what happened to him and torture he had, also, he bears Moh'd AlHussaini the full responsibility.₃</p> <p class="MsoNormal">1. <a href="https://twitter.com/SAIDYOUSIF/status/339289847833456640/photo/1">https://twitter.com/SAIDYOUSIF/status/339289847833456640/photo/1</a> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">2. <a href="https://twitter.com/BaniJamrah_News/status/339467506832003073/photo/1">https://twitter.com/BaniJamrah_News/status/339467506832003073/photo/1</a> - <a href="https://twitter.com/SAIDYOUSIF/status/339470849679712256/photo/1">https://twitter.com/SAIDYOUSIF/status/339470849679712256/photo/1</a> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">3. <a href="https://twitter.com/SAIDYOUSIF/status/339650118863175680/photo/1">https://twitter.com/SAIDYOUSIF/status/339650118863175680/photo/1</a> </p><style><!-- .ExternalClass .ecxhmmessage P { padding:0px; } .ExternalClass body.ecxhmmessage { font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; } --></style> </div> </div></blockquote>BAHRAIN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01457943964785689558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7511930530400846695.post-43189585864609673892013-06-03T19:29:00.001+03:002013-07-31T12:51:17.311+03:00Bahrain update: 27 May: 42 years and 3 months to Redhah AlGhasra<div><br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div> <style><!-- .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 12pt; font-family:Calibri } --></style> <div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Bahrain update: 27 May: 42 years and 3 months to Redhah AlGhasra. </b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Laywer Reem Khalaf stated in a press conference that Redhah is accused in 16 cases which may cause him 42 years and 3 months behind bars. ₁</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Security forces keep arresting youth by raiding their houses at dawn; about 5 young men were arrested today from Shakhora and Hamad Town. ₂</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Although Rajab has an appointment on 22 May in the military hospital, prison administration bans Rajab to get medical treatment as a punishments of what he had witnessed. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">The court postponed martyr Saleh Abbass murderer trial to 22 June ₃and confirmed the sentence of 15 years to 11 young men for the fabricated murdering case in Manama. ₄</p> <p class="MsoNormal">1. <a href="http://manamavoice.com/news-news_read-13440-0.html">http://manamavoice.com/news-news_read-13440-0.html</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">2. <a href="https://twitter.com/SAIDYOUSIF/status/338945705764864000/photo/1">https://twitter.com/SAIDYOUSIF/status/338945705764864000/photo/1</a> - <a href="http://www.alwasatnews.com/3916/news/read/776075/1.html">http://www.alwasatnews.com/3916/news/read/776075/1.html</a> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">3. <a href="http://www.alwasatnews.com/mobile/news-775930.html">http://www.alwasatnews.com/mobile/news-775930.html</a> - <a href="http://manamavoice.com/news-news_read-13433-0.html">http://manamavoice.com/news-news_read-13433-0.html</a> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">4. <a href="http://manamavoice.com/news-news_read-13429-0.html">http://manamavoice.com/news-news_read-13429-0.html</a></p><style><!-- .ExternalClass .ecxhmmessage P { padding:0px; } .ExternalClass body.ecxhmmessage { font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; } --></style> </div> </div></blockquote>BAHRAIN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01457943964785689558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7511930530400846695.post-9924655303193112662013-06-03T11:34:00.001+03:002013-06-10T12:54:16.630+03:00Weekly Newsletter<div class="container" style="width: 960px;background-color: #FFF;margin: 0 auto"> <div class="header" style="background-color: #FFF"><a href="#"></a><a href="#"></a><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/1f88bd5d1/www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/BCHR%20Logo2.png" width="850" hspace="20" /><a href="#"></a><a href="#"></a><a href="#"></a> <!-- end .header --></div> <div class="sidebar1" style="float: left;width: 180px;background-color: #f7f7f7;padding-bottom: 10px"> <ul class="nav" style="padding: 0;margin: 0;border: 5;border-color: #000;list-style: none;border-top: 1px solid #666;margin-bottom: 15px"><li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"> <div align="center">Issue No. 48 </div> </li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"> <div align="center">03 June 2013 </div> </li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><a href="#newssummary" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF"> <strong>News Summary</strong></a></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#impunity" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">A Culture of Impunity</a></strong></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#trials" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">Trials and Prison Sentences</a></strong></li> <li style="border-bottom: 1px solid #666;background-color: #f7f7f7"><strong><a href="#other" style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;display: block;width: 160px;text-decoration: none;background-color: #FFF">NGO & Other News</a></strong></li> </ul><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, registered with the Bahraini Ministry of Labor and Social Services since 2002.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">Despite an order by the authorities in November 2004 to close, the BCHR continues to operate after gaining a wide internal and external support for its struggle to promote human rights in Bahrain.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">For more information, please visit our website:</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f37cfdb0e2/69a31f0425/d330bd7b4e">www.bahrainrights.org</a></p> <!-- end .sidebar1 --></div> <div class="content" style="padding: 10px 0;width: 780px;float: left"> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#E2422D" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="impunity" id="impunity2"></a>News Summary</h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">This last week in Bahrain saw further attacks on demonstrators and collective punishment against the general population. Ten people were arrested without warrant during home raids, and in a separate incident a man was reportedly brutally beaten during his arrest. <br /><br /> Also last week, a conference hosted by BRAVO was held in Ireland concerning the use of teargas in Bahrain; a video below shows the massive amounts of this toxic teargas that are being fired into villages without justification on a daily basis. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Read below for details on these stories and more.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#E2422D" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="impunity" id="impunity"></a>A Culture of Impunity</h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/0e1d06565/www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/field/image/image.png" name="" width="350" height="300" align="left" hspace="15" border="5" id="" />Ten individuals were arrested without warrant on the 29th, and have been charged with an alleged bomb blast. The BCHR is concerned that these arrested individuals will be subjected to torture and forced into signing confessions.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f37cfdb0e2/69a31f0425/c20c7bcb7b">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <h1 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"> </h1> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><strong><img src="http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/BLBEb88CIAEH-ds.jpg?itok=NX0FRxDb" alt="img" width="300" height="250" hspace="15" border="5" align="right" />Redha Abdullah Isa Al-Ghasra</strong> was arrested last week and allegedly tortured by the security forces. A sound recording that reportedly documents some of the abuse he received was released online. </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f37cfdb0e2/69a31f0425/3752c895ad">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">A video uploaded on June 1st shows the extreme amounts of teargas being fired into villages on a nightly basis as a form of collective punishment: </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f37cfdb0e2/69a31f0425/dd3387ccf4/v=PsNKf0GSKrs">Link to the video via youtube.</a></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PsNKf0GSKrs?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" style="text-align: center"></iframe></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#e10610" style="font-family: Garamond"><h2 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="trials" id="trials"></a>Trials and Prison Sentences</h2></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/d0555c7c8/www.amnesty.org/sites/impact.amnesty.org/files/imagecache/news-highlight/bahrain-childprisoners%2031.05.13.jpg" alt="img" width="350" height="200" hspace="15" border="5" align="left" />Amnesty International drew attention to the imprisoned teenagers <strong>Jehad Sadeq Aziz Salman</strong> and <strong>Ebrahim Ahmed Radi al-Moqdad</strong>, and to the general problem of the Bahraini government not respecting the rights of children. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="#">Link to the full article. </a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <table width="781" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#e10610" style="font-family: Garamond"><h1 style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a name="other" id="other"></a>NGO & Other News</h1></th> </tr></table><p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/df5587217/www.rfi.fr/sites/filesrfi/imagecache/rfi_43_large/sites/images.rfi.fr/files/aef_image/FIDH%20ok_0.jpg" alt="img" width="350" border="5" align="left" hspace="15" /><strong>Karim Lahidji</strong> was elected the new President of the FIDH on Tuesday. He stated: "My first message is to all the human rights defenders who are arbitrarily detained, wherever they are in the world..... My thoughts turn especially to my colleagues and friends Ales Bialiatski, in prison in Belarus and [BCHR President] <strong>Nabeel Rajab</strong>, detained in Bahrain".</p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f37cfdb0e2/69a31f0425/11792cba77">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/5eb57636f/deva-c.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/CeartasSnapShot1.jpg" alt="img" width="350" border="5" align="right" hspace="15" />Ceartas has submitted its report 'Human Rights Standards and the Accreditation of RCSI-Bahrain' to the Irish Medical Council highlighting past and on-going violations of rights within hospital facilities in Bahrain. News of this submission was featured in The Lancet, the BBC and the Irish Times and the Ceartas news release.<br /><br /><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f37cfdb0e2/69a31f0425/b60e48bf70">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/e3257064f/bahrainrights.hopto.org/BCHR/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/bravo.png" alt="img" width="350" border="5" align="left" hspace="15" vspace="25" /></p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">A conference hosted by the Bahrain Rehabilitation and Anti-Violence Organization took place on Friday in Dublin, which was entitled: <em>Government sponsored Acts of Suppression: Teargas as a weapon of policing in Bahrain</em>. The conference brought together <strong>Physicians for Human Rights, CIVICUS, Hope Defenders,</strong><strong> No Peace Without Justice, </strong>and<strong> OMEGA research foundation. </strong></p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f37cfdb0e2/69a31f0425/5344f6784d">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://pr.ak.vresp.com/e4b7941f1/www.rcsi-mub.com/files/2012/20120919080435_Prof.%20Thomas%20Collins%201" alt="img" width="350" border="5" align="right" hspace="15" />Professor Tom Collins, the former President of the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland in Bahrain resigned from his post in March 2013 following a government attack on academic freedom. <br /></p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify">Prof. Collins stated in The Irish Times last week that he came to realize 'silence was not an acceptable stance'.<br /></p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f37cfdb0e2/69a31f0425/e4b08b561b">Link to the full article.</a> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f37cfdb0e2/69a31f0425/d827e44f6c">An interview where Prof. Collins explains his decision to resign.</a></p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1522254535/AI_logo_small_space_Yellow.jpg" alt="img" width="350" border="5" align="left" hspace="15" />Amnesty International has spoken out against the six month imprisonment ruling against activist <strong>Naji Fateel</strong>, which was delivered on May 22nd. Fateel was arrested for "illegal gathering". He has not been allowed any family visits since May 2nd.<br /><br /><a href="#">Link to the full article.</a></p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <hr /><p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><img src="http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-thumb-sm/public/field/image/ali%20abdulemam.jpg?itok=vvvBlAji" alt="img" width="350" border="5" align="right" hspace="15" /></p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"><strong>Ali Abdulemam</strong>, who recently escaped from Bahrain to London, spoke with NPR last week about his story, and how he feels about his country now. <br /><br /><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f37cfdb0e2/69a31f0425/d7381df040">Link to the full article.</a> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;text-align: justify"> </p> <!-- end .content --></div> <div class="footer" style="padding: 10px 0;background-color: #f7f7f7;position: relative;clear: both;text-align: center"> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">The Bahrain Center for Human Rights</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px">Dronningsgade 14, 1420 Copenhagen, Denmark</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BahrainCenterforHuma/f37cfdb0e2/69a31f0425/16fa761d59">www.bahrainrights.org</a></p> <!-- end .footer --></div> <!-- end .container --></div> </p> <br> <br style="clear: both;"> <hr> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td> <font face="arial,verdana" size="1"> <a href="http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/733045/f37cfdb0e2/289728953/69a31f0425/">Click to view this email in a browser</a> <br/><br/> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please reply to this message with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line or simply click on the following link: <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/u?f37cfdb0e2/69a31f0425/mlpftw">Unsubscribe</a> </font> </td> </tr> </table> <hr> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td> <font face="arial,verdana" size="1"> Bahrain Center for Human Rights<br/> Street BB 2212<br/> Manama, M 2001<br/> BH<br/> <p> <a href="http://www.verticalresponse.com/content/pm_policy.html" target="_blank">Read</a> the VerticalResponse marketing policy. </p> </font> </td> <td align="right"> <a href="http://www.verticalresponse.com/landing/ef/?np/f37cfdb0e2" target="_blank"> <img border="0" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/np_pwrby_vr_logo_126.gif" alt="Non-Profits Email Free with VerticalResponse!"/> </a> </td> </tr> </table> <img alt="" src="http://cts.vresp.com/o.gif?f37cfdb0e2/69a31f0425/mlpftw"/> BAHRAIN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01457943964785689558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7511930530400846695.post-52245554018819496122013-06-01T20:49:00.001+03:002013-07-31T12:51:17.321+03:00Bahrain update: 22 May: 3 month to AlKhawaja and 6 to AlSayed<div><br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div> <style><!-- .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 12pt; font-family:Calibri } --></style> <div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Bahrain update: 22 May: 3 month to AlKhawaja and 6 to AlSayed. </b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Tens of arrests in Guraifa, Juffair and Dar Kulaib. As for Mustafa AlMuqddad he was transferred to solitary confinement after being severely tortured to hide the crime Rajab has witnessed. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Many marches were organized around Bahrain in protest with raiding Sh. Isa Qassim house and calling the people to participate in the mass protest on Friday in Duraz, however, most of the marches were suppressed violently by riot police causing lots of injuries with shotgun pellets in Duraz and Abu Saiba.₁</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The court has sentenced Zainab AlKhawaja to 3 months imprisonment and Masooma AlSayed to 6 months imprisonment for protesting in Abu Saiba roundabout. ₂</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Also, 36 young men were sentenced to 6 months imprisonment including the activist Naji Fateel after being horribly tortured.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">1. <a href="https://twitter.com/EMM_BH/status/337259743775170560/photo/1">https://twitter.com/EMM_BH/status/337259743775170560/photo/1</a> - <a href="https://twitter.com/Abu_saiba_media/status/337298746511609856/photo/1">https://twitter.com/Abu_saiba_media/status/337298746511609856/photo/1</a> - <a href="https://twitter.com/SAIDYOUSIF/status/337464852371087360/photo/1">https://twitter.com/SAIDYOUSIF/status/337464852371087360/photo/1</a> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">2. <a href="http://www.alwasatnews.com/3910/news/read/774424/1.html">http://www.alwasatnews.com/3910/news/read/774424/1.html</a> - <a href="http://manamavoice.com/news-news_read-13352-0.html">http://manamavoice.com/news-news_read-13352-0.html</a> - <a href="http://www.anhri.net/?p=77356">http://www.anhri.net/?p=77356</a> - <a href="http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2013/05/22/more-human-rights-activists-jailed-in-bahrain/">http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2013/05/22/more-human-rights-activists-jailed-in-bahrain/</a> </p><style><!-- .ExternalClass .ecxhmmessage P { padding:0px; } .ExternalClass body.ecxhmmessage { font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; } --></style> </div> </div></blockquote>BAHRAIN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01457943964785689558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7511930530400846695.post-35755572913565766652013-06-01T20:48:00.001+03:002013-07-31T12:51:17.294+03:00Bahrain update: 23 May: continuous arrests<div><br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div> <style><!-- .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 12pt; font-family:Calibri } --></style> <div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Bahrain update: 23 May: continuous arrests. </b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In two days, 21 citizens were arrested, 47 houses were raided and many were tortured and injured, king's reforms … perhaps. ₁</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Youth are the victims of arrests at checkpoints, till date many arrests took place at checkpoints even with the end of the national safety law. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Ali Hassan AlRamel, Saudi citizen living in Sanabis, is sentenced with 6 months imprisonment for illegal gathering. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Human Rights First "Jails are filled with activists."₂</p> <p class="MsoNormal">1. <a href="http://alwefaq.net/cms/2013/05/23/20141/">http://alwefaq.net/cms/2013/05/23/20141/</a> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">2. <a href="http://www.bfhr.org/article.php?id=211&cid=3&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter">http://www.bfhr.org/article.php?id=211&cid=3&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter</a> - <a href="http://byshr.org/?p=1392">http://byshr.org/?p=1392</a> - <a href="http://gc4hr.org/report/view/15">http://gc4hr.org/report/view/15</a> </p><style><!-- .ExternalClass .ecxhmmessage P { padding:0px; } .ExternalClass body.ecxhmmessage { font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; } --></style> </div> </div></blockquote>BAHRAIN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01457943964785689558noreply@blogger.com