{"id":14324,"date":"2012-11-26T11:37:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T18:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14324"},"modified":"2012-11-26T11:37:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T18:37:37","slug":"bahrain-regime-revocation-of-peoples-citizenship-is-slap-in-the-face-of-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14324","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain regime revocation of People’s Citizenship is “slap in the face of human rights”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Activist Condemns Bahraini Regime for Revoking People’s Citizenship<\/strong>
\n26 November, 2012 – FARS<\/p>\n

TEHRAN (FNA)- Member of Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) Nigel Rodley described revoking citizenships of Bahraini activists as a “slap in the face of the human rights”, and called for the prosecution of the government agents involved in the killing and torturing of protesters.<\/p>\n

“The measure (depriving the activists of citizenship) is a slap in the face of human rights and a provocative action which poisons the political climate in Bahrain,” Nigel Rodley told FNA on Monday.<\/p>\n

He also urged prosecution of government agents who have tortured activists and violated people’s rights.<\/p>\n

The Bahraini government, facing protracted unrest by an overwhelming majority of the people, has revoked the nationality of 31 men on charges of harming national security.<\/p>\n

The men include London-based dissidents Saeed al-Shehabi and Ali Mushaima, the son of jailed opposition leader Hassan Mushaima, as well as clerics, human rights lawyers and activists.<\/p>\n

Also on the list published by Bahraini News Agency (BNA) were two former parliamentarians from the leading Shiite party Wefaq, Jawad and Jalal Fairooz.<\/p>\n

Anti-government protesters have been holding peaceful demonstrations across Bahrain since mid-February 2011, calling for an end to the Al Khalifa dynasty’s over-40-year rule, end of discrimination, establishment of justice and a democratically-elected government as well as freedom of detained protesters.<\/p>\n

Violence against the defenseless people escalated after a Saudi-led conglomerate of police, security and military forces from the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) member states – Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar – were dispatched to the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom on March 13, 2011, to help Manama crack down on peaceful protestors.<\/p>\n

So far, tens of people have been killed, hundreds have gone missing and thousands of others have been injured. …source<\/a><\/p>\n

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