{"id":4103,"date":"2011-12-04T08:07:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T15:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4103"},"modified":"2011-12-04T08:07:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T15:07:17","slug":"hrw-watch-report-upsets-bahrain-goverment-misconduct-during-arrests-and-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4103","title":{"rendered":"HRW watch report Upsets Bahrain Goverment misconduct during arrests and trails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain: Medics Describe Torture in Detention &#8211; Appeals Court Should Void Flawed Convictions<\/strong><br \/>\nOctober 21, 2011 &#8211; HRW<\/p>\n<p>The appeals court should decisively overturn the unfair verdicts against the medics and dismiss outright all politically motivated charges. The new hearing should also disallow allegedly coerced confessions.<br \/>\nJoe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch<\/p>\n<p>(Beirut) \u2013 Medical staff convicted by a military court of alleged serious crimes during the period of anti-government protests in Bahrain in early 2011 were subjected to abuse and torture in detention, Human Rights Watch said today. Given the fundamental unfairness of the trial, including that civilians were tried in a military court, Bahrain\u2019s High Court of Appeals should reverse the convictions of 20 medical staff when they hear their appeal on October 23, 2011, and order an independent investigation into the defendants\u2019 allegations of abuse and torture.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutors should drop all charges based solely on their exercise of freedom of speech and assembly, and ensure a new trial for defendants in a civilian court only if there is evidence of possible criminal activity, Human Rights Watch said. On October 5, Attorney General Ali Al Buainain announced that the appeal will \u201cbe equivalent to a retrial.\u201d Human Rights Watch interviewed 7 of the 20 medical staff convicted of serious crimes, who told of severe abuse in detention and extensive violations of their rights to a fair trial. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2011\/10\/21\/bahrain-medics-describe-torture-detention\"> &#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D4103&amp;text=HRW+watch+report+Upsets+Bahrain+Goverment+misconduct+during+arrests+and+trails&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain: Medics Describe Torture in Detention &#8211; Appeals Court Should Void Flawed Convictions October 21, 2011 &#8211; HRW The appeals court should decisively overturn the unfair verdicts against the medics and dismiss outright all politically motivated charges. The new hearing should also disallow allegedly coerced confessions. Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4103#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2139],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103"}],"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=4103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}