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 on Twitter on 25 July 2021 and confirmed 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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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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