HRW: Bahraini Regime Tortures Detainees

Local Editor

Bahrain's Al Khalifa regime is censured by Human Rights Watch for mistreatment and torture of detainees during interrogations.

On Sunday, the rights group issued some 84-page report in which it said the techniques employed by the Bahraini regime violate its "obligations as a state party to the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, as well as other international treaties, and contravene the prohibition of torture in Bahrain's constitution and its penal code."

Earlier, Bahrain had claimed that it put an end to torturing prisoners; however, the recent report revealed that it still uses brutal techniques in interrogating the detainees as the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry documented in its 2011 report.

"The claims of Bahrain and its allies that authorities have ended torture in detention are simply not credible," said the HRW's deputy director for Middle East and North Africa.

The HRW's report detailed the accounts of ten prisoners who said they had endured "coercive interrogations" at Ministry of Interior's Criminal Investigations Directorate and in police stations since 2012.

The report further provided the accounts of four former inmates of the Jaw prison, who said that they had been tortured as recently as March.

Besides the many prisoners, the ongoing heavy-handed crackdown on peaceful demonstrations has so far left scores of Bahrainis dead and hundreds of others injured.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team