Committee against Torture Demands Bahraini Regime’s Explanation of Police Involvement in Killings
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The UN Committee against Torture [CAT] demanded Bahraini regime authorities to explain the issue of police officers ‘escaping punishment' for being accused of killings and trialing juveniles.
Relatively, seven of the committee experts questioned the regime's seriousness in the invitation represented by the parliament to the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid bin Ra'ad al-Hussein, to visit Bahrain, and the fate of the police officers accused of nine death cases of the National Institute for Human Rights' first report.
Additionally, the second and third national periodical reports on the implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other inhumane treatment and tough punishments were discussed after the Committee against Torture on Friday, in the presence of the Bahraini governmental delegation composed of 16 members and headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Abdullah Al-Dossari.
The session, headed by the CAT Chairperson Jens Modvig, lasted for three hours and comes 12 years after the discussion of the first national periodical Bahraini report on the convention.
CAT member Alessio Bruni said respectively: "I want to know what would the Bahraini government do towards the locally and internationally dominating sense that escaping punishment in Bahrain still exists."
Bruni further noted that the government's report stated that 559 torture cases were investigated, of which only 61 turned out to be true, wondering whether the government have held accountable those it found accused of practicing torture.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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