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Monday 23 November 2015 - 10:50
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Bahrain capital of torture: Former Bahraini detainee


Alwaght- Bahraini Regime is torturing detainees during interrogation, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on November 23, 2015.


HRW report titled "The Blood of People Who Dont Cooperate: Continuing Torture and Mistreatment of Detainees in Bahrain" concludes that security forces have continued the same abuses the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) documented in its November 2011 report. The commission was established after the fierce repression of pro-democracy demonstrators in February and March of that year. Bahraini authorities have failed to implement effectively the commissions recommendations relating to torture, Human Rights Watch found.


The claims of Bahrain and its allies that authorities have ended torture in detention are simply not credible, saidJoe Stork, deputy Middle East director. All the available evidence supports the conclusion that these new institutions have not effectively tackled what the BICI report described as a culture of impunity among security forces.


However, Britain has spared no effort to argue thatits puppet regime, Al Khalifa, reformed its security forces and accountability mechanisms, as the BICI mandated, but HEW found the operations of those mechanisms seriously flawed.


In 2012 and again in 2013, Bahraini regime postponed indefinitely the scheduled visit of the United Nations special rapporteur on torture to the country.


Human Rights Watch interviewed 10 detainees who said they endured coercive interrogations at the Interior Ministrys Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) and in police stations since 2012, and four former inmates of Jaw prison, who said authorities had tortured them in March 2015.


All said security officers had physically assaulted them. Several described being subjected to electric shocks; suspension in painful positions, including by their wrists while handcuffed; forced standing; extreme cold; and sexual abuse. Six said that the CID interrogators boasted of their reputation for inflicting pain on detainees.


Ill show you why Wifaq [Bahrains leading opposition party] calls Bahrain the capital of torture, a former detainee quoted an interrogator as telling him. Another said a CID officer held something to his nose and told him it was the blood of people who dont cooperate.


King Hamad appointed the BICI in July 2011 in response to international criticism of the security forces violent and disproportionate response to largely peaceful anti-government protests that began in February 2011. The BICI concluded in its report, released on November 23, 2011, that the National Security Agency and the Interior Ministry followed a systematic practice of physical and psychological mistreatment, which in many cases amounted to torture, with respect to a large number of detainees in their custody.


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