UN Special Procedure offices express their concern over violations faced by four Bahraini individuals for their participation in peaceful protests

ADHRB Weekly Newsletter #441
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** In The UN
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** UN Special Procedure offices express their concern over violations faced by four Bahraini individuals for their participation in peaceful protests
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Three United Nations Special Procedures offices published on their website ([link removed]) on 16 February 2023 an allegation letter ([link removed]) sent to the government of Bahrain regarding the violations faced by four Bahraini youths, three of whom were minors and one a human rights activist, after their arrest for their participation in anti-normalization peaceful protests in Aali in October 2021. Yusuf Ahmed Hasan Kadhem ([link removed]) , Jaafar Habib Kadhem ([link removed]) , Sayed Ali Maki Hasan ([link removed]) , and Husain Arafat Maki Naiser ([link removed]) were arbitrarily arrested and denied a fair trial for exercising their right
to participate in protests. They were all sentenced on 31 May 2022 to one year in prison and a 500 Bahraini Dinar fine.

This letter was sent following a complaint drafted and raised to the Special Procedure offices by Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), which serves as the source of the information, through its UN Complaint Program. ([link removed]) ADHRB welcomes the comments from the Special Procedures offices, and echoes their calls for Bahrain to uphold its international obligations and respect the human rights of all people in Bahrain including children and human rights defenders.


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** Profile in perscution
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** Hasan Fadhel Al-Bahhar
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Hasan Fadhel Al-Bahhar is a Bahraini youth who is currently serving his alternative punishment and is under house arrest. Despite being a minor, he was arbitrarily arrested, interrogated alone, and subjected to multiple human rights violations, including torture and unfair trial. He was recently charged in the case of burning an electoral site and sentenced to three years in prison.

Authorities have been monitoring Hasan ever since he was 13 years old, and he was constantly summoned to the Criminal Investigation Directorate (CID) where they would ask him about his friends, mainly including a man named Kameel Jumaa. They would beat and threaten him during his questioning and force him to sign papers without knowing their content because he has difficulties reading. In 2019, when Hasan was 14 years old, he was summoned to Sitra Police Station and offered to work as an informant. An officer even tried to give him money, but Hasan refused. After a while, Hasan’s father was summoned to the police station and officers made him sign some papers. Following these events, his parents were constantly questioned by the Ministry of Interior about Hasan. A few days later, Hasan received a call from the ministry and they told him to consider himself already imprisoned and that they will not leave him alone. Hasan would constantly be contacted by officers at random hours of the day –
for example, at 2:00 AM when he was asleep, or when he was at school. They asked him about his wanted friends. Hasan lived in fear, worry, and danger, and could not sleep at his house, at times going to sleep at his grandfather or aunt’s house. Moreover, Hasan failed his exams because he stopped going to school. He went through hard times with his family because of the constant fear and worry of getting arrested.

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