{"id":17587,"date":"2013-07-29T16:37:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T22:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17587"},"modified":"2013-07-29T16:37:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T22:37:03","slug":"failed-bahrain-regime-lashes-out-in-desperate-arrest-detention-torture-and-abuse-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17587","title":{"rendered":"Failed Bahrain regime lashes out in desperate arrest, detention, torture and abuse campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bahraini authorities raid homes and torture suspects for confessions<\/strong>
\n24 July, 2013 – albawaba<\/p>\n

(AFP\/MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH) Bahraini protestors run for cover during clashes with riot police following a protest against the ruling regime.<\/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 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.<\/p>\n

Such was the case with prominent activist Naji Fateel who has been imprisoned since May on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization and attending an illegal gathering, Muhafda, who is familiar with the incident, said.<\/p>\n

Authorities in western-backed Bahrain have been attempting to crush a popular pro-democracy uprising that erupted in February 2011. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bahraini authorities raid homes and torture suspects for confessions 24 July, 2013 – albawaba (AFP\/MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH) Bahraini protestors run for cover during clashes with riot police following a protest against the ruling regime. Security forces in Bahrain have been raiding dozens of homes each day since April, arbitrarily arresting young men, and torturing them to more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17588,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17587\/revisions\/17588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}