Bahrain Crackdown: Injured Det Mohammed Sahwan Martyred at Jaw Prison

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Prisoner of opinion Mohammed Sahwan had been martyred at Bahrain's Jaw Central Prison Thursday night.

After 5 years of detention with a neglected head injury, Sahwah who was still serving his 10-year prison verdict, had succumbed to his wounds.

The Bahraini detainee held in Jaw Central Prison was 45 years old. He was imprisoned over charges linking him to joining what is known as the "Qatar Cell".

In addition to being denied medical treatment in prison, despite suffering from 80 pellets lodged in his head, sustained by shotgun bullets during a 2012 protest in Sanabis, Sahwan was also tortured while in custody.

In 2012, Bahrain Center for Human Rights [BCHR] issued a statement reporting that Sahwan was prevented medical treatment.

The Bahraini regime's Ministry of Interior [MoI] announced that Sahwan had been martyred "while he was exercising sports in the reform and rehabilitation center at Jaw", and that preliminary information indicate he died of natural causes. The MoI said it had informed the Public Prosecution of his death.

On his part, al-Wefaq Deputy Secretary General, Sheikh Hussein al-Daihi said that Sahwan is an icon of Bahrain, stating, "You needed treatment and they neglected you, and deliberately harmed you, until you died due to your pain, as an oppressed martyr."

Sheikh al-Daihi noted through his twitter account, "Mohammed Sahwan endured, along with his family, injustice and oppression like all Bahraini families, and his family either had a detainee or pursued member, due to their stances against the regime's oppression."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team