In light of Bahrain’s decade-long policy of silence regarding its citizens’ demands for reform and democracy, thousands of Bahraini youth and children who participated in the 2011 popular movement have spent a significant portion of their lives behind prison bars. In some cases, these prison sentences have exceeded the young ages of the prisoners. International[…]
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Mohamed Jaafar Mohamed Ali (AlShamali) was a 15-year-old Bahraini child and school student when he was arbitrarily arrested from his home on 15 July 2012. He was subjected to torture, enforced disappearance, solitary confinement, medical neglect, an unfair trial, reprisals, and ill-treatment. Additionally, he was denied education, access to healthy food, sufficient access to water,[…]
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The Bahraini citizen Husain Abdulla Mohamed (Juma’a) was arbitrarily arrested from his home when he was 20 years old. He was subjected to torture, enforced disappearance, medical neglect, and an unfair trial during his detention. He is currently serving a life sentence in what was known as the “Zulfiqar Brigades” case, in which he was[…]
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Since the start of the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip on 7 October 2023, demonstrations have continued in various Arab and international cities denouncing what UN experts described as a “genocide and ethnic cleansing”, to which defenseless civilians are subjected through the criminal bombing and ongoing Israeli massacres on the besieged Strip, which has[…]
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Ahmed Abdulla AlAjaimi, a 21-year-old Bahraini young man from Karranah City and a first-year student at Ahlia University, was arbitrarily arrested in 2017. He was subjected to torture, enforced disappearance, and insults based on religion. He is currently held in Jau Prison after being sentenced in 2018 to seven years imprisonment in an unfair trial.[…]
