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.

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.

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 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.

and In Deference to the King's Will and His Uncle the Prime Minister

22 August 2010

A week has not yet passed from the arrest of the chairman of the human rights office in "Haq" Movement, the academic Dr. Abdul-Jalil Al-Sangaece – directly upon his return from London, and after delivering a speech in the British House of Lords – when the University of Bahrain – which is the institute he works in as a teacher – suspended him from work.

(AFP) – 18 Aug 2010

WASHINGTON — Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch called on Bahrain either to release or formally charge eight activists, including clerics, the groups said the Gulf kingdom has arrested.

"The Bahraini authorities must make it clear why these eight men have been arrested, and either release them or charge them with recognizable criminal offences," Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, deputy director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa programme, said in a Wednesday statement.

MANAMA, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Bahraini authorities have detained four more Shi'ite activists on security grounds, raising the stakes in the run-up to parliamentary elections after earlier arrests were criticised by rights groups.

The detentions bring to eight the number of activists and clerics arrested over the past week. The detainees include Mohammed Saeed, a board member of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights whose operations were formally suspended in 2004 but which continues to operate, Bahrain's state news agency said.

By Alexandra Sandels, Special to the Los Angeles Times

August 20, 2010

Reporting from Beirut —
Political tensions have risen in recent days in the Persian Gulf state of Bahrain, where Shiite Muslim clerics and a prominent activist have been arrested as the island kingdom gears up for parliamentary elections in October.

Activists, mostly Shiites protesting government policies and the recent arrests, blocked roads near the capital Wednesday night, and set fires to trash cans.

20 August 2010

A week after the arrest of Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace, the Chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the Haq Movement in Bahrain, and in view of the subsequent crackdown of protests against the arrest in the country, the Islamic Human Rights Committee has appealed to Mrs. Margaret Sekaggya, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, appealing for her to take up the case.

Published on 20 August 2010

Abdeljalil Al-Singace, a blogger and academic who heads a mainly Shiite opposition group called Haq (or Movement for Liberties and Democracy), was arrested on 13 August on returning from London, where he took part in a seminar on the worsening human rights situation in Bahrain.

He has been accused of defaming the government and judicial authorities, and “publishing false information about the country’s internal affairs” with the aim of sullying its image.