Bahrain Denounced over Children Rights Abuses

Local Editor

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights [BCHR] said on Friday that the regime authorities repeatedly violated the rights of children by imprisoning and committing acts of torture against them.

Torturing and prisoning children flagrantly violates the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the rights group added.

According to the BCHR, since 2011, more than 10 children under 18 have been killed by the regime forces across the Arab country.

The rights body also noted that Bahraini regime have detained more than 1,500 children under the Terrorism Act.

The group further denounced Bahraini regime authorities over the torture, long-term sentences and denial of education for hundreds of children across the tiny Persian Gulf country.

The Bahrain Human Rights Observatory, among other rights groups, also expressed deep concern over the continuing violations by Bahraini authorities against children.

Furthermore, Amnesty International has repeatedly censured the Bahraini regime for its "rampant" human rights abuses against opposition activists and anti-government protesters.

The continuous heavy-handed suppression on peaceful demonstrations has left dozens of Bahrainis dead and hundreds of others injured.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team