ADHRB Weekly Newsletter #412
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** Profile in Persecution
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** AbdulAziz AbdulRedha Isa
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AbdulAziz AbdulRedha Isa was a 23-year-old security guard when he was arrested without a warrant in 2011 after a raid. AbdulAziz was brutally tortured afterwards, which resulted in severe head and body injuries. After being unfairly convicted by the military court, AbdulAziz was transferred to Jau Prison, where he remains to carry out his sentence.On 6 April 2011, masked officers in civilian clothing and Special Security forces arrested AbdulAziz from a house in A’ali. Officers did not state the reason for the arrest, nor was an arrest warrant presented. AbdulAziz had been previously arrested on 6 April 2009 and released on 23 February 2011 with the start of the pro-democracy demonstrations.After his arrest, AbdulAziz was taken to AlQurain Prison where he was interrogated without the presence of his lawyer and tortured in order to extract confessions, while news on him was completely cut off from his family. Special Security Officers and soldiers beat him all over his body and severely hit
his head, in addition to subjecting him to foot whipping and electric shocks. As a result, AbdulAziz suffered from wounds and scars on his body, a head injury causing him convulsions and epilepsy, as well as back pain. When his family was finally able to meet him for the first time since his arrest while at the military court, signs of torture were apparent on his body. Despite all this, AbdulAziz did not confess to the charges.

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** GCC in the Wire
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- UK government using taxpayer money to fund Bahraini body accused of covering up torture and rape ([link removed]) (The Independent)

Freedom of information requests show the British government’s “secretive” multi-million-pound support for nations in the Gulf region includes funding for a highly controversial body alleged to have covered up evidence of the rape and torture of two female activists in 2017. Najah Yusuf and Ebtisam Al-Saegh, the two campaigners who allege they were sexually assaulted by the Bahraini authorities, have now hit out at the UK government for funding the human rights investigatory institution in Bahrain, known as the National Intelligence Agency Ombudsman.

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