22/4/2009
Doubts about the Complicity of the Bahraini Authorities

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses deep concern regarding the Bahraini government's failure to address repeated humanitarian appeals regarding Bahraini citizens Abdullah Al-Nuaimi and Abdul-Rahim Al-Murbati, who are being held in solitary confinement, without trial, in Saudi Arabia.

Group turning to United Nations for help in Saudi detention case
Mazen Mahdi, Foreign Correspondent

Last Updated: November 29. 2008 10:40PM UAE / November 29. 2008 6:40PM GMT MANAMA // A Bahraini opposition group said it will turn to the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to seek assistance in securing the release of three Bahraini nationals being held in Saudi Arabia on suspicion of having terrorist links.

Mazen Mahdi, Foreign Correspondent

Last Updated: November 29. 2008 10:40PM UAE / November 29. 2008 6:40PM GMT MANAMA // A Bahraini opposition group said it will turn to the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to seek assistance in securing the release of three Bahraini nationals being held in Saudi Arabia on suspicion of having terrorist links.

Former Prisoner at Guantanamo Bay

The Saudi Security Arrest a Bahraini Citizen on King Fahad Causeway

Manama – 23 November/2008
The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights is deeply concerned at information received about the arrest of Bahraini citizen Abdullah Majid Al-Nuaimi on October 29, 2008 by the Saudi authorities as he was entering the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia via the King Fahad causeway which connects Bahrain with Saudi Arabia. Mr Al Nuaimi was then taken to an unknown destination. Since his arrest he has not been allowed to meet with any family members, nor allowed to hire or meet an attorney. The Saudi authorities have as yet failed to release charges against him.

HAQ: Movement of Liberties and Democracy- Bahrain

حق: حركة الحريات والدموقراطية- البحرين

الـحـقـوق للـجـمـيـع .. Rights for All

www.haaq.org, Email: HAAQ.Bahrain@gmail.com, HRB.BAHRAIN@gmail.com

مـكـتـب حـقـوق الإنـسـان Human Rights Bureau

Bahrain: In the first case hearing, State-militia car detainees spell out suffering of torture

Bahrain Centre for Human Rights - March 2008.
The Kingdom of Bahrain is the first Arab country to have all its detainees released from Guantanamo. They were released as the result of a diplomatic and security agreement between the Bahraini and American authorities, but in reality this would have not taken place without the activity and continued pressure exerted by institutions of civil society, human rights organizations, the US law firm representing Bahraini detainees, a popular movement, and the parliament.

Picking up the pieces

Sandeep Singh Grewal

Bahrain Tribune

Every time I opened my eyes, I used to curse myself that I was still alive. Every suicide attempt was a disaster and my only desire was to die… Even when freedom was in the air, I chose death. Yet, as fate would have it, I survived again…

Life as much as it is beautiful can be very ugly too. It is a cruel world out there on the dark side of life.

Six years in Guantanamo Bay can turn life upside down leaving a deep scar at the root of one’s life and beliefs. The past is a blur and the present a painful reminder of the past.

Published: 10th October 2007

BAHRAIN's former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Juma Al Dossary hosted a reception at his family home in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, last night to celebrate his release.

Members of the Al Adala (Justice) National Movement, who campaigned for his freedom, attended the event to congratulate him and his family on his release from the Cuba-based camp in July.

The reception by the detainee, who has dual Bahraini-Saudi nationality, took place at a house in the Al Mazro'aya neighbourhood.

Mr Al Dossary was among a group of 16 Saudis freed from Guantanamo in July and was held in the Al Hair prison, before being moved to the rehabilitation centre several weeks later to prepare him for life in the community.

By GEOFFREY BEW
Published: 4th October 2007

FREED Bahraini Guantanamo Bay detainee Juma Al Dossary has been temporarily released from a rehabilitation centre in Saudi Arabia, it emerged last night.

Human rights activist Nabeel Rajab confirmed the news after receiving a telephone call from the 32-year-old, who has dual Bahraini-Saudi nationality.

Mr A Dossary is now staying for 20 days at his family home in Dammam, after being allowed to leave the Riyadh centre yesterday.

He was among a group of 16 Saudis freed from Guantanamo in July and was held in the Al Hair prison, before being moved to the rehabilitation centre several weeks later, to prepare him for life in the community.

Bahrain: 19 September 2007