ADHRB Weekly Newsletter #411
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** Rights groups Call for Impartial Investigation Into Death of Inmate in Bahrain Amid Reports of Medical Negligence
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The Bahraini authorities must immediately order an independent investigation into medical negligence that may have led to the death of the prisoner Hasan Abdulnabi Mansoor in Bahrain, the Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) and Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy stated today. The 35-year-old Bahraini prisoner died tragically at Salmaniya Medical Complex on 25 July 2021 following sickle cell complications, amid reports of medical negligence by authorities at Dry Dock Detention Centre.

Hasan Abdulnabi’s death was announced ([link removed]) on Twitter on 25 July 2021 and confirmed ([link removed]) later that day by Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior in a Tweet which failed to acknowledge reports of medical negligence or confirm whether an investigation into the death would take place. BIRD has obtained his death certificate and the medical notification of cause of death in which the doctor attributed his death to “ventricular fibrillation leading to cardiac arrest,” with the “antecedent cause” identified as “sickle cell disease”. Hasan Abdulnabi was pronounced dead at 12:45 am on 25 July 2021.

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** Profile in Persecution
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** Profile in Persecution: Ali Sabah AbdulMohsen Mohamed
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Ali Sabah AbdulMohsen Mohamed was a 37-year-old retiree working as a mechanic; when the Bahraini authorities arrested him without a warrant at his home in 2013. Ali is currently being held in Jau Prison.
On the night of 29 December 2013, Ali was at home when crime scene and investigation officers, along with riot police, conducted a raid at 10pm. Despite not producing a warrant or stating the reason for the arrest, the officers raided the flat and arrested Ali, his father and siblings. His family members were released, but Ali was detained. He later learned that he was wanted for joining a terrorist group.
After Ali’s arrest, his family sought him out at the Budaiya police station, where they learned that he was being held after the arrest, but the officers denied that he was at the police station. Two days after his arrest, he called me and told his family that he was fine while he was in interrogation sessions. Ali then disappeared for 11 days, during which he was interrogated.
During the interrogation, Ali was tortured by the agents of the Criminal Investigation Directorate. He was severely beaten and deprived of sleep. Ali was interrogated without a lawyer, as he was forbidden to contact him after his arrest. Torture was used to obtain a coerced confession in the case Ali was accused of; he eventually confessed, and his confession was used against him at trial.

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** GCC in the Wire
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- For a Crime at 14, He Faces Death in a Case Casting Doubt on Saudi Reforms ([link removed]) (The New York Times)
The kingdom has announced changes to its justice system, but still sentenced a teenager to death for a robbery and the killing of a police officer, despite an alibi and claims of a forced confession.

- The United States Must Stop Arming Human Rights Abusers ([link removed]) (National Interest)
Whether it be the ethnic cleansing of the Kurds in Northern Syria by Turkey, the devastation inflicted upon the people of Yemen by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, or Pakistan’s enabling of regional extremists and abysmal human rights record at home—U.S. arms and aid have perpetuated tragedy at a global scale.

- Migrants' unpaid hospital bills a barrier to birth certificates in UAE ([link removed]) (Reuters)
Philippine national Maya and her husband lost their low-paying jobs in the United Arab Emirates early in the coronavirus pandemic, and with it their work visas and health insurance. Now they say they face a mounting bill of daily immigration fines because their one-year-old child remains undocumented, as the hospital where it was born withholds the birth notification required to get a certificate until the couple settles a 14,000 dirham ($3,800) bill. Dozens of women have told the Do Bold non-profit organisation, which promotes migrant workers' rights, that they had not obtained birth certificates in the UAE as of late 2020.

- Detainee says China has secret jail in Dubai, holds Uyghurs ([link removed]) (AP)
A young Chinese woman says she was held for eight days at a Chinese-run secret detention facility in Dubai along with at least two Uyghurs, in what may be the first evidence that China is operating a so-called “black site” beyond its borders.

- UN human rights experts call for spyware crackdown ([link removed]) (E&T)
The UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner has this week called on governments to pause the sale and transfer of surveillance technology, including spyware, until rules can be agreed upon to govern their use and prevent human rights infringements.
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