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Bahrain: Relatives of exiled activists continue to be targeted amid ongoing unrest

NOVANEWS The signatory human rights organizations express their condemnation over the continued targeting and harassment of human rights defenders and their families. "Human rights defenders have been subjected to systematic and continuous violations, including arbitrary detention, travel bans and torture". Testimonies documented by reliable human rights organizations confirmed the continued target and harassment of also the families of human rights defenders. The signatory organizations confirmed that they have monitored and documented the abuse committed by members of the security services against Yunes Ahmed Sultan, a Bahraini citizen, who is also the brother of human rights defender Mohammed Sultan, member of Bahrain Center for Human Rights. This abuse had rev...
Bahrain

Bahrain: Zionist regime Committed Nearly 1,000 Abuses in January

NOVANEWS The monarchy of Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, in Bahrain, committed 995 cases of abuse in January, a new report by the Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) has revealed. The report, published Saturday, states that 121 people, including six minors, were arbitrarily arrested in house raids. Torture and other violent tactics were used against 18 detainees, including eight minors and four women, in police stations and prisons. A total of 17 Bahrainis were disappeared last month, many having participated in anti-regime protests, and 77 opposition protesters were given a total of 679 years in prison for taking part in protests or supporting notable dissidents. The BFHR also cited the continued ban on Friday prayers in the village of Diraz as a human rights violation. Diraz harbors many ...
Bahrain

BFM Arabic Statement 10th March 2017  

NOVANEWS الحرية والنصر للشيخ عيسى والهزيمة والعار للاحتلال عندما دعا "علماء البحرين" لفعاليات متميزة في الايام الخمسة التي تسبق 14 مارس، يوم محاكمة سماحة الشيخ عيسى احمد قاسم، وصفوا تلك الايام بانها "استثنائية". ومن اسباب ذلك ما يعتمل في نفوس البحرانيين من غضب عارم نتيجة الاضطهاد الذي يمارسه الطاغية وعصابته الخليفية المجرمة على الشعب والوطن، وعلى الشيخ عيسى، رمز الوطن والدين والعلم. ايام اسثنائية لانها كشفت عمق المشروع الخليفي لتصفية هوية الوطن الاصلية التي يرون فيها تحديا دائما لوجودهم، فهي هوية التراب التاريخية، وهي الثقافة الموروثة عبر الاجيال منذ اليوم الذي اعتنق فيه البحرانيون دين الله الذي انزله على نبيه الكريم. انها الهوية التي ميزت شعب البحرين وثورته طوال ستة اعوام واثبتت مقولة الشيخ عيسى نفسه: ستعجزون ولن نعجز. لم يترك الخليفيون جريمة الا ارتكبوها في هذه الفترة ا...
Bahrain, United Kingdom

UK covered up intelligence training with Bahrain’s police, amid death sentence

NOVANEWS Reprieve UK authorities trained Bahrain’s police how to gather intelligence on protestors, and then tried to cover up the scheme, international human rights group Reprieve has found. The project took place after protestors in the Gulf kingdom were rounded up and sentenced to death. Britain’s Foreign Office paid for half a dozen Bahraini police officers to visit Belfast in August 2015, where the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) shared its expertise on gathering intelligence ahead of demonstrations. Protestors in Bahrain, such as Mohammed Ramadan, have been targeted by police and tortured into falsely confessing to capital crimes. Mr Ramadan, a father of three young children, is now on death row and could be executed at any time. The training, which also included session...