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Bahrain Crackdown: 2017 Was the Bloodiest Year, Human Rights Crises Unprecedented, Al-Wefaq Warns

Bahrain Crackdown: 2017 Was the Bloodiest Year, Human Rights Crises Unprecedented, Al-Wefaq Warns
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With the end of 2017, Bahraini Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society summed up the crises that passed over the previous year, emphasizing that 2017 was one of the bloodiest years in Bahrain and included the harshest security restrictions and repressions and the use of all means of oppression and abuse.

Bahrain Crackdown: 2017 Was the Bloodiest Year, Human Rights Crises Unprecedented, Al-Wefaq Warns

The Bahraini local society further stressed that 2017 witnessed a coup against the constitution and international resolutions and treaties in an unprecedented manner through passing dozens of laws which restrict freedoms and encourage more authoritarianism, tyranny and corruption.

"2017 witnessed the fall of 15 martyrs by various ways and forms through systematic, planned and organized work. The same year witnessed issuing several death sentences, trying and imposing house arrest on the top and most important religious authority in Bahrain, and arresting nearly 1000 people by the regime," the group added.

The group further documented that 2017 witnessed the revocation of the nationality of more than 150 Bahraini activists. Many were subjected to brutal torture in prisons and interrogation rooms to extract confessions and build fake cases of blackmail and political revenge.

Moreover, 2017 witnessed thousands of trials of activists and citizens lacking the most basic rules of justice; and the most major setback in justice and the judiciary occurred when civilians were tried in military courts.

A few days before the end of the year, death sentences against 6 civilians were issued in military courts that lacked the basic elements of justice. Civil and military courts relied on the confessions extracted under torture.

In addition, the Bahraini judiciary witnessed the revenge against the opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman, Al-Wefaq's Secretary General, who is being tried because of his interaction with the US-Saudi-Qatari initiative, which took place years ago to resolve the political crisis that began when the large pro-democracy movement started in Bahrain.

The Bahraini group further pointed out that 2017 witnessed the biggest deterioration of the economic situation, an increase in the public debt, an accumulation of fiscal deficit, the imposition of more fees and financial obligations on citizens and the adoption of austerity measures due to designating budgets for security and military matters and because money is going to the pockets of those who are corrupt and who steal public money.

Al-Wefaq stressed that the Bahraini regime continued to reject all voices calling for political partnership, dialogue and negotiation, and faced all local and international efforts made by local, international and UN figures and institutions with rejection and circumvention.

Source: Al-Wefaq, Edited by website team

 

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