Living in Agony: The Long Term Effects of Torture in Bahrain

ADHRB Weekly Newsletter #441
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** Living in Agony: The Long Term Effects of Torture in Bahrain
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In Bahrain, much attention is paid to the victims of torture immediately after the event, but those same victims can sometimes be forgotten when new, equally horrible treatment against equally innocent people comes to light. This study attempts to rectify the issue, looking at the long-term effects of torture from victims that experienced their trauma up to a decade ago. Predictably, it finds that victims continue to suffer from their abuse years after the event occurred, oftentimes reporting symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder or other mental illnesses caused by their torture. In this report, we interview several such victims, provide their testimony, and make recommendations about how the Government of Bahrain should provide them restitution and solve the issue of torture once and for all.

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** Profile in perscution
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** Hasan Ahmed Radhi Mohamed
( Sarhan )
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Hasan Ahmed Radhi Mohamed was a recent high school graduate when Bahraini authorities arrested him in 2012. He has been subjected to human rights violations on multiple occasions, including torture and unfair trial when was charged in the case of establishing and joining a terrorist cell, the February 14 Coalition, as well as in other cases. He is currently serving his sentence at Jau prison and was recently placed in the isolation building with 13 of his fellow prisoners.

Hasan was arrested on 23 February 2012 from his house in the village of Eker. Riot police gathered around the perimeter of the house, and a group of them, accompanied by masked officers in civilian clothing and officers from the National Security Agency, raided the house. They roamed and searched it without presenting any search warrant. They pulled the detainee, dragged him, and forcibly pushed him out of the house, all without presenting an arrest warrant or stating the reason for the arrest. There were police cars as well as civilian cars. When the parents asked where he would be taken, the authorities did not give any answer. They told the family that they could follow them by car and when they did, the officers began to elude them so the family could not catch up with them. The family inquired as to the Hasan’s whereabouts at several police stations, but did not get any information indicating the presence of the detainee. He was disappeared for a period of seven to ten days, until his
family received a call instructing them to take some clothes for him and deliver them to the detention prison in the town of Al-Hidd.

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** Sayed Ahmed Fuad AlAbbar
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Sayed Ahmed al-Abbar is a 26-year-old old Bahraini from Karrana who was warrantlessly arrested in 2016 and charged in a terrorism and murder case. He was severely tortured to coerce a confession and was sentenced to death. He is currently on the death row and faces the threat of execution at any moment.

Prior to his arrest, Sayed Ahmed was wanted and pursued by authorities for nearly a year on charges of rioting and burning tires. His house was raided several times for the purpose of his arrest, but he wouldn’t sleep at home as he anticipated night raids. On 24 April 2016, Ahmed was arrested by Ministry of Interior officers including riot police and National Security Agency officers while he was at a farm in the Karrana area along with one of his friends, Husain Ali Mahdi Jasim. He was forcibly disappeared from the time of his arrest until 1:30 A.M. when his family received a call from him in which he stated that he was being detained at the Criminal investigation Directorate building (CID – Adliya). His phone call was cut after this statement, and the next news that his family received from him was a phone call four days later in which he reassured his family asked them to pray for his release. During the call, his voice sounded tired and exhausted.

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