UK Trade Unions Call for Release of Detained Bahraini Teachers
Adding up to the appeals urged by Amnesty International, the British trade unions called for the immediate release of two teachers who have been held in detention in Bahrain, during the Saudi-backed crackdown sweeping across the country against pro-reform protesters.
The general Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, Brendan Barber, wrote a letter to the Bahraini Ambassador to the UK Rashid Al-Khalifa, in which he expressed serious concerns over the continued detention of Jalila al-Salman and Mahdi Issa Mahdi Abi Dheebfor, for being charged for "exercising their rights of freedom of expression, association and assembly".
"I urge your government to release them immediately and unconditionally. I also urge the authorities to protect them from torture and other ill-treatment and immediately set up an impartial and public investigation that brings to justice those found responsible for what has happened to them", the letter read.
Along with several other members of the Bahrain Teachers Association, al-Salman and Dheebfor were arrested amid the regime's brutal crackdown against peaceful protesters; however reports indicated that their colleges were released recently.
Source: News Agencies
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