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HRW: Bahrain’s Tolerance for Dissent Approaching Vanishing Point

HRW: Bahrain’s Tolerance for Dissent Approaching Vanishing Point
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused Manama of using bogus charges to harass, intimidate, and imprison human rights defenders and their relatives throughout the course of last year.

HRW: Bahrain’s Tolerance for Dissent Approaching Vanishing Point

In its World Report 2018, the group asserts that the Gulf kingdom has continued it "downward spiral on human rights".

"Bahrain's tolerance for dissent is approaching vanishing point, erasing whatever progress it made after promising to make reforms following the unrest in 2011," said HRW's Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson.

The report highlights Manama more high-profile rights violations in 2017.

These include the executions of three men, the sentencing of another 14 to death, allowing military courts to try civilians, and the killing of five demonstrators in Diraz during a raid on the home of the country's highest religious authority Sheikh Isa Qassim.

The regime has also stripped nearly 200 Bahrainis of their citizenship, imposed travel bans on 20 rights activists, lawyers, and political opposition figures, dissolved the National Democratic Action Society (Waad), suspended the only independent newspaper, and sentenced leading activist Nabeel Rajab to two-years in prison.

Meanwhile, in a bid to punish exiled human rights defender Sayed Alwadaei, a Manama court sentenced three of his relatives to lengthy prison terms despite allegations of ill-treatment and coerced confessions.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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