Bahrain: disturbing images of victims shot by Death Squads as arrests continue
As the ruling family continued its aggression against the people of Bahrain, more international human rights bodies have condemned their barbaric actions. The total number of Bahrainis detained in the past week has now risen to 57. In none of these cases has there been arrest warrant.
In all the cases the Al Khalifa have failed to provide the legal protection required by law. Lawyers have expressed dismay at the lack of the due process of law, warning that these actions are leading the country into the abyss. The arrests which began with the seizure of Dr Abdul Jalil Al Singace from the airport as he returned home on Friday 13th August, have included minors whose rights have been totally bypassed.
Over the past 24 hours new Bahrainis have been snatched from their homes. They include: Hussain Omran, Abdul Amir Dawood, both from Bani Jamra Town, Ali Jawad Al Fardan from Karzakkan and Ahmad Jamshir from Isa Town. Sayyed Qassim Sayyed Ibrahim, 27 and Ahmad Al Haykim 24 from Bild Al Qadim were arrested as they sat at a house listening to the recitation of the Holy Quran. They were charged with “congregation without permission”!
Today disturbing images were circulated of three young Bahrainis, the youngest is 16, who were shot by the Death Squads outside their home. They were told by members of the Al Khalifa killers to run, and were sprayed with shotguns as they did. The images show blood streaming from their wounds. They were targeted not for any thing they did, but to create fear in the hearts of Bahrainis.
The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights has issued a call for the bloggers to report the closure of their blogs. In a desperate attempt by the ruling family to silence all opposition and impose a blackout on news, it ordered the closure of many electronic sites. It has also invested heavily in training professional hackers to target the pro-democracy sites. Several bloggers were persecuted in the past for running “unauthorized blogs”.
The renowned body of journalists “Reporters Without Borders” has today issued an Urgent Action calling for the immediate release of Dr Abdul Jalil Al Singace titled “Unacceptable arrests of human rights activists”.
http://en.rsf.org/bahrain-unacceptable-arrests-of-human-20-08-2010,38186.html
The statement said: “We call for the immediate release of these activists as all they did was criticise their country’s violations of basic freedoms… These arbitrary detentions are designed to silence those whose statements and publics stances are annoying the authorities… Al-Singace’s arrest is particularly intolerable because of his precarious health.”
Bahrain Freedom Movement
20th August 2010