ADHRB Weekly Newsletter #376
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** Bahrain
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** Profile in Persecution
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** Jasim Mohamed AlEskafi
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23-year-old Jasim Mohamed AlEskafi was working at Mondelez International’s Kraft Factory, in addition to freelance farming and sales work, when he was arbitrarily arrested by the Bahraini authorities on 23 January 2018. During his detention, he was subjected to several human rights violations. Since April 2019, Jasim has been held in Jau Prison.

At around 1:30 a.m. on 23 January 2018, masked security forces, armed officers in civilian clothing, a large number of riot forces, and Commando forces surrounded and raided Jasim’s house without presenting any arrest warrant. They then stormed his bedroom while he and all his family members were sleeping, and arrested him after threatening and pointing weapons at him. The masked men searched the room where Jasim’s younger brother was also sleeping, confiscated and searched his phone before returning it to him, then pulled Jasim outside without allowing him to wear shoes or even a jacket to protect him from the cold weather at that time of the year. The forces also dug in the garden of the house, and confiscated the personal phones of the family members, as well as Jasim’s father’s car. The raid lasted until 6 a.m., and no one was allowed to leave the house. He was then transferred to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) before being transferred to the Investigations Department of
Jau Prison in Building 15, where he was interrogated.

During the interrogation, Jasim was tortured by law enforcement officers while blindfolded and handcuffed. He was beaten, he was forced to take his clothes off in the open air in exceedingly cold weather, and cold water was poured on him in order to force him to confess to information about other individuals in the opposition and to confess to the charges against him. Despite all the torture, officers failed at first to coerce Jasim into giving a false confession. His lawyer was not able to attend the interrogations, as Jasim was not allowed to meet anyone.

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** GCC in the Wire
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- U.N., several countries denounce arrests of Egyptian activists (Reuters) ([link removed])
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CAIRO (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights office, the United States and several European countries on Friday criticised the arrest of three members of a prominent Egyptian rights group after a meeting with diplomats in Cairo.


- Israel, Bahrain cement new ties with pledges of embassies and visas (Reuters) ([link removed])

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Bahrain and Israel said on Wednesday they would open embassies, establish online visa systems and launch weekly flights between the countries soon, in a broadened cooperation promoted by Washington as an economic boon and means of isolating Iran.

- Jamal Khashoggi killing: Turkey’s trial of Saudi suspects resumes (Al-Jazeera) ([link removed])

A Turkish court will resume the trial in absentia of 20 Saudi officials on Tuesday for the gruesome killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

- Saudi Arabia and Human Rights Activists Fight Over Kingdom’s Image at G-20 (New York Times) ([link removed])

BEIRUT, Lebanon — For Saudi Arabia, hosting the Group of 20 summit in Riyadh this year was supposed to cement its global stature. Heads of state from the world’s richest nations were to be wowed by the kingdom’s rugged beauty and changing society — and encouraged to let its war in Yemen and murder of a prominent journalist drift into the past.

- ([link removed]) In Lebanon, army courts target anti-government protesters ([link removed]) (AP) ([link removed])

BEIRUT (AP) — Khaldoun Jaber was taking part in an anti-government protest near the presidential palace outside Beirut last November when several Lebanese intelligence officers in plainclothes approached and forcibly took him away.

- ([link removed]) Qatar Charges Airport Police After Female Passengers Are Strip-Searched ([link removed]) (New York Times) ([link removed])

Prosecutors in Qatar have charged airport police officers involved in invasive medical exams that were performed on female passengers after a newborn was found abandoned in a Doha airport bathroom.

- Five Lebanese prisoners die in accident following mass prison break-out ([link removed]) (Reuters) ([link removed])

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Five escaping prisoners died on Saturday when their car hit a tree after more than 60 detainees broke out of a Lebanese detention centre outside the capital Beirut, Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) said in a statement.

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