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Report: Bahrain adopts zero tolerance torture policy<\/strong>
\nBy CNN Wire Staff – 29 December, 2011<\/p>\n

(CNN) — Bahrain is adopting a zero tolerance policy toward “torture, inhuman treatment and degrading detention” practices toward political prisoners — one of a number of recommendations made by an independent commission looking into claims of abuse during a crackdown on protesters earlier this year.<\/p>\n

The government announced the policy in a statement released by the state-run Bahrain News Agency on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

The moves follows last month’s report by an independent commission that found police tortured and used excessive force against civilians arrested during a crackdown on the protests that followed successful uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.<\/p>\n

The oil-rich kingdom, according to the statement, is committed to implementing the recommendations “in their entirety.”<\/p>\n

The government plans to reinstate all government employees who were fired after they were charged with “free speech activity,” the statement said.<\/p>\n

The government also is ordering that all pending cases of “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” be transferred to its top judicial office for investigation.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Bahrain is ordering the use of audio-video equipment during interviews with suspects, witnesses and detainees, the statement said.<\/p>\n

The move follows news over the weekend that Bahrain plans to drop charges related “to speech protected by the right to freedom of expression,” the news agency said. Forty-three cases applying to 343 people will benefit from the announcement, it said.<\/p>\n

Demonstrations demanding political reform and greater freedoms in Sunni-ruled, Shiite-majority Bahrain began February 14 before authorities — backed by troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — cracked down in two waves, first in February and later in mid-March.<\/p>\n

Thirty civilians and five security officers were killed during that time, the commission said.<\/p>\n

Opposition groups say more than 1,000 people — mainly Shiites — have been detained for allegedly taking part in the demonstrations. …source<\/a><\/p>\n

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