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BCHR calls Bahrain "a dangerous zone for the freedom of press and journalists." Those arrested "could die in view of the current security laws (the emergency law,)" as well as arbitrary brutality unleashed against anyone with anti-regime sympathies, especially human rights and political activists, as well as independent writers and bloggers. Many were arrested and/or threatened, including:
-- BCHR's Sayed-Yousef Al-Mahafdha on March 20;
-- BCHR President and Vice Secretary General of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) Nabeel Rajab on the same day;
-- Mohammed Al-Masqati, President of the Bahrain Youth Human Rights Society (BYHRS);
-- Abdulhdi Alkhawaja, former BCHR President;
-- Naji Fateel, BYHRS board member;
-- Salman Naji, member of the Committee for the Unemployed;
-- Abdul Gani Khanjer, head of the Committee of the Victims of Torture; and
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