{"id":17582,"date":"2013-07-29T09:37:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T15:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17582"},"modified":"2013-07-29T09:37:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T15:37:28","slug":"bahrain-rsgime-escalates-street-violence-with-arbitrary-attacks-on-villages-with-shot-guns-cs-gass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17582","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Rsgime Escalates Street Violence with Arbitrary Attacks on Villages with Shot-guns, CS Gass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bahraini forces escalate house raids, arbitrary arrests: NGO<\/strong>
\n23 July, 2013 – Al Akhbar<\/p>\n

Security forces in Bahrain have been raiding dozens of homes each day since April, arbitrarily arresting young men, and torturing them to force confessions to some crime, a local rights group said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Plainclothes police, some of them dressed in neon-colored vests and black ski masks, knocked down doors of houses in at least 10 villages across the tiny Gulf monarchy on Monday and arrested several people, Yousif al-Muhafda, deputy-head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), said.<\/p>\n

In the latest home invasions on Tuesday, Muhafda documented raids in at least four villages including al-Shakhtoura, Sehla, Nabi Saleh and Ma\u2019ameer with a number of arrests.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn one day, there are at least 30-35 house raids,\u201d the rights activist told Al-Akhbar.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany times they aren\u2019t looking for specific people. They just storm a house and ask the family if they have any young men,\u201d Muhafda added.<\/p>\n

In a period of five days from July 17 – 21, the BCHR documented over 60 arrests, 140 injuries from birdshot, and 150 house raids.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of others have been arrested in a recent escalation of house raids, which began during a massive crackdown on activists ahead of the Formula One Grand Prix in the capital Manama in April.<\/p>\n

Some of those taken into custody included persons with physical and mental disabilities. For example, Qassem Ghaloum Ahmad, who suffers from a mental disability, was detained last week in arbitrary arrests. Before him, security forces had arrested blind and deaf youths.<\/p>\n

\u201cBahrain is now living under martial law,\u201d Muhafda said. \u201cThe house raids never stop. For 24 hours yesterday (Monday), they went from one village to to the next.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once arrested, the mostly-young Bahrainis are held in Dry Dock Prison where they are routinely beaten and tortured with no access to family or a lawyer.<\/p>\n

Afterwards they are sent to the criminal investigation office where they are blindfolded and asked to sign a document confessing to a crime. If they refuse, or ask to see a lawyer, they are sent back to Dry Dock for more beatings. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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