HRW Criticizes Bahraini Regime’s Unjust Trials of Protesters
Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized the Bahraini regime's trial of the anti-regime demonstrators, activists, and medical doctors who were accused of helping protesters, although they were only doing their duty.
On this level, HRW issued a 94-page report on Tuesday, in which it lambasted the unfair "politically motivated" sentences against the detainees.
"Grossly unfair military and civilian trials have been a core element in Bahrain's crackdown on pro-democracy protests", said deputy Middle East director at HRW, Joe Stork, in the report entitled "No Justice in Bahrain: Unfair Trials in Military and Civilian courts".
"The government should remedy the hundreds of unfair conviction to the past year by dropping the cases against everyone convicted on politically motivated charges and by adopting effective measures to end torture in detention", Stork added.
"The egregious violations of fair trial rights in political cases do not just reflect poor practices of individual prosecutors and judges, but serious, systematic problems with Bahrain's criminal justice system", the report further noted.
Moreover, HRW called in its report on the Saudi-backed Bahraini regime to release all detained protesters. Also, the right group urged the US, UK, France, and other countries to suspend all their military and security-related sales to the Bahraini regime, until it fully tackles the ongoing right violations which came as a result of the suppression of peaceful protesters.
Source: HRW, Edited by moqawama.org team
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