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Some journalists covering protests were directly targeted with tear gas and sound grenades. Seventeen Witness Bahrain activists were deported. Most were beaten and injured.
Accountability
"No member of the Bahraini Security Forces has been (charged or) convicted of human rights violations at detention centers." Their names and positions aren't revealed.
Saudi and other GulF Cooperation Council (GCC) forces remain in Bahrain. Under international law, it's illegal. So is brutalizing nonviolent protesters.
Security forces shot directly into Abbas Abdulla's car, setting it ablaze. He's lucky to be alive. He filed a complaint, was arrested, is now detained, likely tortured, and awaits prosecution despite no offense committed.
"Security forces continue to commit violations against (protesters) and human rights activists on a daily basis through excessive force, intimidation, ill treatment, and collective punishment with impunity."
Those implicated in torture cases include members of the Al-Khalifa monarchy. Among other positions, they run the National Security Apparatus, the police, the Criminal Investigation Directorate, Bahrain's Royal Guard, Bahrain's Defense Force, the courts, and all state ministries.
Recommendations
BCHR urges immediately ending human rights violations, violent repression of peaceful protests, unconditionally releasing political prisoners, and ending torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions, as well as holding detainees incommunicado.
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