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Sun, 04/24/2011 - 14:34
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Bahraini Forces Torture Human Rights Activist
TEHRAN , April 24 (FNA)- Bahraini security forces are using inhumane tactics, including various torture techniques, to suppress the popular uprising in the tiny Persian Gulf island, a Bahraini activist said.
Nabil Rajab, president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, is one of the social activists in the island who has been arrested twice since the beginning of the popular uprising in Bahrain but later released under international pressures and demands for his release.
His house, too, has been stormed by the government forces several times.
Rights activists in Bahrain have repeatedly said that the government's harsh tactics and intimidation against opposition forces cannot smother the popular uprising in the Persian Gulf country.
People are being tortured, kidnapped, sexually harassed and assaulted, houses being stolen and raided, villages being raided, and worshipping places are being demolished, the human rights activists pointed out.
Also, the Muslim Women Movement in a recent statement protested at the brutal and cruel behavior of the Bahraini regime towards women in the country, and revealed that the Al-Khalifa regime has imprisoned innocent pregnant women in horrible dungeons.
"They keep pregnant women in terrifying prisons, martyr their husbands under torture and attack people's homes at night and create panic and horror," the statement said on Saturday, addressing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
In an ominous turn of events, Britain's Independent newspaper reported on April 21 that Bahraini security authorities have intimidated and arrested doctors and other medical staff in hospitals, condemning them for treating individuals wounded during pro-democracy demonstrations.
Some doctors have reportedly been held incommunicado or have "disappeared". All of this is in total violation of the Geneva Convention on treating people injured during conflicts.
Nabil Rajab, president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, is one of the social activists in the island who has been arrested twice since the beginning of the popular uprising in Bahrain but later released under international pressures and demands for his release.
His house, too, has been stormed by the government forces several times.
Rights activists in Bahrain have repeatedly said that the government's harsh tactics and intimidation against opposition forces cannot smother the popular uprising in the Persian Gulf country.
People are being tortured, kidnapped, sexually harassed and assaulted, houses being stolen and raided, villages being raided, and worshipping places are being demolished, the human rights activists pointed out.
Also, the Muslim Women Movement in a recent statement protested at the brutal and cruel behavior of the Bahraini regime towards women in the country, and revealed that the Al-Khalifa regime has imprisoned innocent pregnant women in horrible dungeons.
"They keep pregnant women in terrifying prisons, martyr their husbands under torture and attack people's homes at night and create panic and horror," the statement said on Saturday, addressing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
In an ominous turn of events, Britain's Independent newspaper reported on April 21 that Bahraini security authorities have intimidated and arrested doctors and other medical staff in hospitals, condemning them for treating individuals wounded during pro-democracy demonstrations.
Some doctors have reportedly been held incommunicado or have "disappeared". All of this is in total violation of the Geneva Convention on treating people injured during conflicts.
