5 August 2010

"Except for those limitations that are demonstrably necessitated by the fact of incarceration, all prisoners shall retain the human rights and fundamental freedoms set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and, where the State concerned is a party, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Optional Protocol thereto, as well as such other rights as are set out in other United Nations covenants." - Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights received several calls from the families of the political and criminal convicts on the background that their sons are being subjected to beating and treatment that degrades their dignity inside the Central Prison of "Jaw". The families stated that their sons have been deprived of many of their rights which they used to benefit from as inmates in that prison and without prior notice.

July 08, 2010

POLICE have strongly denied claims of opposition and human rights groups that they used excessive force towards relatives of seven men jailed for killing Shaikh Mohammed Riaz.

Officers were forced to restrain some of the Bahrainis convicted of murdering the Pakistani after they reacted violently to Monday's verdict and attempted to leave the dock and embrace relatives.

They also clashed with family members inside the court, which had been under lockdown ahead of the hearing amid fears of trouble.

A BAHRAINI rights group yesterday said it was still stunned by life sentences handed down to seven Molotov cocktail killers on Monday.

Three of their co-defendants, including one who is still on the run, were cleared by the High Criminal Court.

But the government-registered Bahrain Human Rights Society (BHRS) claimed the verdict was political and questioned how all seven men could be equally responsible for the death of Shaikh Mohammed Riaz in March last year.

By NOOR TOORANI , Posted on » Tuesday, July 06, 2010

SEVEN Bahrainis were yesterday jailed for life amid chaotic scenes for killing a Pakistani, who died following a Molotov cocktail attack on his car.

They were convicted by the High Criminal Court of attacking Shaikh Mohammed Riaz in March last year and will each serve 25 years.

Some of the defendants reacted violently to the verdict, while their relatives clashed with police inside the court, which had been kept under lockdown ahead of the hearing.

By Habib Toumi, Bahrain Bureau Chief
Published: 15:27 July 5, 2010

Manama: The High Criminal Court on Monday sentenced seven Bahraini men to life in prison and acquitted three in the murder case of a Pakistani man last year.

The 10 defendants were initially charged with causing the death of Shaikh Mohammad Riadh in March 2009 after they planned an attack on a police patrol in Maameer, a village south of the capital of Manama, where protesters were clashing with anti-riot police.

5 July 2010 (0830 GMT)

BREAKING NEWS / PRESS RELEASE: Bahrain – 7 of 10 Ma’ameer detainees found guilty and sentenced to life;
IHRC Trial Observer witnesses excessive use of police force against convicted men, their relatives and supporters inside and outside court;
Tear gas and rubber bullets used to disperse demonstrators outside court room

13 May 2010


In a political sentence issued by the Supreme Appeal Court on 28 March 2010[i][1] to convict 19 defendants of killing a policeman from the Special Forces, the Pakistani Majid Asghar Ali, and imprisoning them all for 3 years, after annulling the acquittal issued in their favour on 13 October 2009.

19 Convicted in Killing Despite Earlier Acquittal, Lack of Evidence, Coerced Confessions
April 30, 2010
Related Materials: Torture Redux.This appeals court decision flies in the face of Bahrain's claim that it has a policy of zero tolerance of torture during interrogation of criminal suspects. The government hasn't offered a single shred of evidence linking the defendants to the incident other than these thoroughly discredited confessions.

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