ADHRB Weekly Newsletter #424
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** Profile in Persecution
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** Khalil Ebrahim AlQassab
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Khalil Ebrahim AlQassab was 18 years old when he was arrested for the second time in his life from his house in Northern Sehla in May 2013. Since his arrest, Khalil has suffered physical and psychological torture, as well as religious discrimination at the hands of the Bahraini authorities. He remains in Jau Prison where he is completing a sentence of more than two decades.

Khalil was first arrested in April 2012 after receiving a summon for his participation in the 2012 Roundabout demonstration. He was arrested for 24 days and was released on 8 May 2012. On 18 May 2013, officers dressed in civilian clothing raided Khalil’s house in Northern Sehla at 2:30 am. They arrested him without a warrant as part of an arbitrary raid campaign in the area, and his education was interrupted as a result.

Upon his arrest, Khalil was forcibly disappeared for an entire week, as his family was unaware of his fate and whereabouts for that period until he called them and informed them that he was being interrogated at the CID, where he did not have access to a lawyer. At the CID, Khalil was subjected to torture in order to extract a confession to the charges held against him.

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** GCC in the Wire
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- Young Saudi Shi'ite whose death sentence was commuted leaves jail (Reuters) ([link removed])

Saudi authorities have released a young Shia Muslim, Abdullah al-Zaher (15), whose death sentence had been commuted to 10 years in prison. The Saudi public prosecutor ordered a review of death penalties after a 2019 Decree that individuals sentenced to death for crimes committed as minors would instead serve 10 years in juvenile detention centers.


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