More than 470 human-rights violations by regime in 2023: Wefaq Party
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The Bahraini Wefaq National Islamic Society party has registered hundreds of human rights violations by the Manama regime in the past three months.
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Anti-government protesters shout slogans while holding Bahraini flags during a protest outside Bahrain's leading opposition party Al Wefaq's headquarters May 9, 2012 (Reuters/Hamad Mohammed)
The Bahraini Wefaq National Islamic Society party has registered hundreds of human rights violations by the Manama regime in the past three months.
In its report, Al-Wefaq indicated that the most prominent events of the first three months of this year were the campaigns of arbitrary arrests, summons, and raids following the peaceful demonstration commemorating the 12th anniversary of the 2001 popular uprising.
Read more: Over 14,000 cases of arbitrary arrest recorded in Bahrain since 2011
On the violations following the demonstration, Al-Wefaq reported:
- 36 cases of arbitrary arrests between February and March (no arrests were reported in January)
- 26 cases of summons targeting 21 citizens
- 22 arbitrary rulings; 12 by the Supreme Criminal Court of Bahrain, 1 by the Appellate Court, and 3 first-degree cases by unspecified courts.
Additionally, 281 raids were reported against 36 regions, most prominently in Daih, Sanabis, and Jid Hafs.
الوفاق ترصد الحراك الميداني خلال الربع الأول من السنة الجارية: 207 احتجاج وفعالية سلمية في 44 منطقة
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On human rights violations against prisoners by the Bahraini prison complex, the report identified:
- 6 cases in the Juw Central Prison, which is run by the Ministry of Interior
- 1 case in the Dry Dock Detention Center, which is also run by the Ministry of Interior
Several protests and acts of defiance were also reported from inside the prisons
- 9 cases of hunger strikes in the Juw Central prison
- 1 case of hunger strike in Dry Dock
- 3 cases of protests in Juw
Read more: Al-Wefaq: Prison conditions endangering lives of political prisoners
Al-Wefaq also reported that the regime's oppressive measures are being met with a range of peaceful protests: reporting 207 protests in 44 areas mainly in Al Al-Sumoud Triangle, Al-Sanabis, and Jid Hafs.
Earlier in January, it was reported that the Bahraini regime sentenced 21 protesters to prison which included 3 minors.
Seven of the defendants were sentenced to life in prison in absentia, while nine others were sentenced to ten years in prison, according to LuaLua television network: specifying that three minors were sentenced to a sentence of three years.
