Beirut Holds Conference on Human Rights Violations in Bahrain, Figures Urge International Condemnation
The Conference on the Violations of Human Rights in Bahrain was launched on Wednesday in Beirut in an opening ceremony under the auspices of former Lebanese Prime Minister Salim al-Hoss.
The next day on Thursday, the conference organized by Bahrain Forum for Human Rights resumed its program, aiming at spotting the light at the sufferings of the Bahraini people in light of the crackdown imposed by the al-Khalifa ruling regime.
Arab and international, political and legal Bahraini figures took part in the conference, in addition to international legal organizations, where participants presented the violations conducted by the Saudi-backed Bahraini regime forces.
As the second day kicked off, a documentary was played, illustrating the violations of human rights in Bahrain. After the documentary, several figures delivered speeches in which they shed the light on the brutal suppression imposed on the peaceful Bahraini protesters.
On his part, Deputy Head of the Gulf Center for Human Rights, Khaled Ibrahim, hoped that the Bahrainis would reach a resolution leading to the release of the detainees, and the drop of all illegal charges issued against medics and doctors. Ibrahim further confirmed that the Bahraini regime has launched a cold war against its people, announcing that a legal board will visit Bahrain on October 10 in order to check on its miserable status.
In the same context, Head of Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights Mohammad al-Maskati hoped in his remarks that the conference would lead to something good, calling for a stance supporting the international community mission in order to stress on the Human Rights and to document all violations occurring in Bahrain.
Many discussions took part on the sideline of the conference, during which media, law, and political figures tackled the vicious torture of Bahraini people, especially doctors and medical staff.
In an interview with Al Intiqad online newspaper, Head of Bahrain Center for Human Rights Nabil Rajab stressed on the importance of the conference in referring to the violations and crimes against humanity committed in Bahrain.
Rajab believed that Beirut would be the best place to break the media blackout and deliver the Bahraini appeal to the foreign and international organizations to launch international condemnation.
Since mid-February, people in Bahraini have been holding peaceful protests calling for social, political, and economic reforms. The said protests were met by a brutal crackdown by the Saudi-backed regime forces, which so far have killed hundreds of innocent people and detained hundreds others amid a media blackout imposed by the government.
Source: moqawama.org team
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