Appeal for Urgent Intervention(2): Political, Human Rights and Religious Figures Facing Torture and Humiliation
in the Detention Centers of the National Security and in a Blatant Cover-up from the Public Prosecution.
• The Number of Detainees in the Protest Demands Exceed 200 Detainee, the Majority are Human Rights Activists and Defenders.
• It has become Vital for the Ruling Institutes to Embark on Radical Solutions to the Human Rights Issues rather than Resorting to Security Solutions.
31 August 2010
The growth of violations and deterioration of the security state in Bahrain is still ongoing. Further information was received about the mental and physical torture of detainees in the security campaign and especially the political, human rights activists and religious figures. This is a time where the country seems like a military barrack, and where the citizens are living in an unannounced state of emergency. An extensive and intensified media campaign is being organized, where the acts of the detainees and participants are being condemned and in preparation for further arrests. With this, the defendants, lawyers and those in solidarity with them are forbidden from freedom of expression, which comes with the ban on publication ordered by the public prosecution.
The BCHR received confirmed information that Sheikh Mohammed Habib Al-Muqdad, Sheikh Saeed Al-Nori and Mr. Abdul-Ghani Khanjjar are facing brutal physical and mental torture.
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders: Urgent Appeal
Acts of physical and psychological torture perpetrated against Messrs. Abduljalil Al-Sengais and Abdulghani Ali Issa Al-Khanjar while in detention
1 September 2010
The Observatory has been informed by the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) about the acts of physical and psychological torture perpetrated against Messrs. Abduljalil Al-Sengais, Spokesperson and Director of the Human Rights Bureau of the Haq Movement for Civil Liberties and Democracy, and Abdulghani Ali Issa Al-Khanjar, Spokesperson of the National Committee for Martyrs and Victims of Torture (NCMVT), while in detention.
HRW: Bahrain: Pursue Torture Allegations
Counterterrorism Charges Against Activists Follow Weeks of Incommunicado Detention
September 1, 2010
"Bahraini authorities should immediately investigate these allegations of torture and guarantee the physical and psychological well-being of the four men. The attorney general has a legal obligation to throw out any coerced confessions and any evidence obtained by ill-treatment, including information that led to the men's indictments."
Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch
(Washington, DC) - Bahraini authorities should immediately look into allegations of torture by four opposition activists who had been held in incommunicado detention for more than two weeks, Human Rights Watch said today. In their formal interrogation sessions with prosecutors, the four contended that their captors had subjected them to torture and degrading treatment.
CPJ: Bahrain gags press as it cracks down on opposition
New York, August 31, 2010--Bahrainian prosecutors have banned journalists from reporting on the detentions of dozens of opposition activists, according to news accounts. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities to lift the censorship order immediately.
Urgent Appeal - Dr. Al-Singace makes claims of torture to Public Prosecutor
“...I was handcuffed and blindfolded the entire time, they beat me on my fingers with a rigid instrument; they slapped me on my ears and I was pulled by my nipples and ears by tongs, and I was hit with a rigid object on my back and that was to force me to sign papers I had no knowledge what was written on them…” - Dr. Abduljalil Alsingace
• Transferring other detainees to hospitals without knowledge of their conditions in solitary confinement
• The Public Prosecution bans any publication on the case in order to cover up torture and other violations
• The continuation of temporary arbitrary kidnappings by the militias of the national security in which they are stripped naked and tortured
• No other choice but to dissolve the national security apparatus and present those responsible to public independent trials
• Any official in the government, who ordered or had knowledge of these violations without immediately stepping in to stop it, according to the International law, is legally responsible
28th August 2010
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights has received with great concern information that Dr. Abduljalil Alsingace (Head of the Human Rights office at the HAQ movement) was subjected to severe physical and psychological torture in which he almost lost his hearing ability and has severe injuries in his back and other parts of his body. The information received also includes the transfer of some activists and human rights defenders to hospitals due to torture including Shaikh Mohammed Habib Almuqdad (religious figure, human rights activist and president of Alzahra charity society of orphans), Abdulghani Khanjar (head of the national martyrs committee and torture victims, and the official spokesperson for the Truth and Justice coalition which is made up 11 societies and organizations, both human rights and political), and Abdulhadi Alsaffer (active member of Committee against rise in prices and Detainees and families committees). The center has also been following up on the kidnappings committed by the national security militia in the Bahraini villages and streets in an offensive and arbitrary manner.
Scholars at Risk (SAR) Call for Urgent Action for Detained Mechanical Engineering Professor Abdul Jalil Al-Singace of Bahrain
August 27, 2010
Scholars at Risk (SAR) is gravely concerned about the arrest and detention of Professor Abdul Jalil Al-Singace, a mechanical engineer at University of Bahrain in Isa Town. SAR asks for letters, faxes and emails urging authorities to explain publicly the reasons for Prof. Al-Singace’s detention, disclose the whereabouts of Prof. Al-Singace and ensure his access to medical care, family and legal counsel.
Cancer Treatment Halted by Bahraini authorities due to HAQ Presidents Public Criticism against Security Campaign
In Accordance to the Security Campaign Launched by the National Security
27 August 2010
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its grave concern over the Bahraini authorities’ decision to ask a hospital in London to stop the cancer treatment that Mr. Hassan Mushaima, president of Haq movement, is receiving. The hospital was informed that the government in Bahrain will no longer pay the expenses for the treatment starting from the 25th of the month. It appears that the reason behind this decision is because of the criticisms expressed by Almushaima in a public seminar at the House of Lords, as well as to television programs about the crackdown on freedoms and the escalation of abuses committed by the security bodies in Bahrain.
The BCHR Condemns the Attack on the President of Alwatan Newspaper
Alwatan plays a main role in escalating the sectarian congestion and defaming opposition leaders and human rights activists
27 August 2010
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses a serious concern about the increase in acts of violence which comes as a result of political and security unrest. This time it comes in an incident of attack that was reported by Mr. Muhannad Abu Zeitoun, chief editor of Alwatan newspaper. This incident took place in the morning of Wednesday, 26th August. He claimed that it resulted in a wound in his hand and the burning of a part of his car.
NEAR: Bahraini Professor and Activist Arrested
26 August 2010
A lecturer in Engineering was detained by authorities in Bahrain on 13 August, Human Rights Watch reported on 17 August 2010. Dr Abduljalil al-Singace, who teaches engineering at the University of Bahrain, was arrested at Bahrain International Airport as he returned from London with his family.
The King of Bahrain Grants the National Security Apparatus (NSA) Full Power
• The NSA is Behind Planning and Executing the Recent Campaign against the Political and Human Rights Activists and the Kidnaps and Torture by the Armed Militias
• It Specializes in Prosecuting the Opponents and Activists and has the Authorities of the Ministry of Interior and the Public Prosecution and is Immune from Legal Prosecution
• The Apparatus is Formed on a Sectarian Basis and Uses the Foreign Mercenaries in all its Institutes and Operations
• Dissolving the National Security Apparatus and the Special Security Forces and Returning its Authorities to the Regular Security Apparatus is Inevitable
Minister of National Security Sheikh Khalifa bin Abdullah Al-Khalifa
23 August 2010
The name of the National Security Apparatus (NSA) emerged during the last days in running the security affairs of the country, as well as its responsibility for the pervasive violations of human rights, the latest of which was the arrest campaign that reached a number of well-known activists, physical assault and sexual abuse and harassments, as well as cutting off roads to kidnap activists by a group of armed militias affiliated with the same apparatus. In addition, the NSA is running a campaign of deliberately smearing the reputation of the political activists, human rights defenders and sons of the Shiite sect, and which is the same technique used by the NSA during the last twenty years to attack the political opposition. The NSA is currently chaired by Sheikh Khalifa bin Abdullah Al-Khalifa.
