{"id":7985,"date":"2012-03-29T07:54:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T14:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7985"},"modified":"2012-03-29T07:54:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T14:54:59","slug":"bahrain-abuse-intensifies-following-unfavorable-abuse-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7985","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Abuse Intensifies following Unfavorable Abuse Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Critical’ rights reforms ignored in Bahrain<\/strong>
\nGregg Carlstrom – 29 March, 2012 – AlJazeera<\/p>\n

Manama, Bahrain – A week ago, Ali al-Singace, 16, was found tied up and half-naked in a garage in Sanabis, just outside the Bahraini capital; he told neighbours that he\u2019d been beaten, stabbed and sexually assaulted by a group of men, and filed a police report later that afternoon.<\/p>\n

Within a matter of days, Singace was back at the police station, but this time as a suspect, not a victim: Prosecutors accused him of filing a false police report. He was accused of inflicting knife wounds on himself, a conclusion attributed to a government doctor who conducted a medical examination.<\/p>\n

\u201cYesterday [Tuesday] we tried to have him examined again, to have another doctor review his case, and they refused the request,\u201d said Faten al-Haddad, Singace\u2019s lawyer.<\/p>\n

Rights groups here say that the case raises new questions about the government\u2019s willingness to reform its legal system. Singace says he has been abducted several times before, because he refused to work as a police informant, and that the men who seized him last week were plainclothes detectives. \u201cThe police didn\u2019t explain how he managed to tie himself up,\u201d one activist said sarcastically.<\/p>\n

The Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) report, released in November, catalogued dozens of problems with Bahrain\u2019s legal system and security forces. Prisoners were routinely held incommunicado, and denied access to their lawyers and families. Torture was routine. Military courts convicted hundreds of people in trials which did not meet basic standards of due process, according to groups like Amnesty International.<\/p>\n

The government argues that it has fulfilled most of the report\u2019s suggestions for fixing those problems. \u201cA lot of the major, major ones have been implemented, and you have a lot of them with the ministry of interior, the ministry of justice,\u201d said Abdelaziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa, an official from Bahrain\u2019s information affairs authority.<\/p>\n

But rights groups and lawyers frequently complain about the government\u2019s handling of cases like Singace\u2019s, and that of Abdullah Fardan and Hassan al-Jabber. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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‘Critical’ rights reforms ignored in Bahrain Gregg Carlstrom – 29 March, 2012 – AlJazeera Manama, Bahrain – A week ago, Ali al-Singace, 16, was found tied up and half-naked in a garage in Sanabis, just outside the Bahraini capital; he told neighbours that he\u2019d been beaten, stabbed and sexually assaulted by a group of men, 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":[2139],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7985"}],"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=7985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7986,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7985\/revisions\/7986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}