{"id":10845,"date":"2017-03-08T17:18:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T17:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=10845"},"modified":"2017-03-08T17:18:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T17:18:27","slug":"six-years-of-saudi-occupation-led-al-khalifa-to-commit-hr-atrocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/six-years-of-saudi-occupation-led-al-khalifa-to-commit-hr-atrocities\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Years of Saudi Occupation Led Al-Khalifa to Commit HR Atrocities"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the 6th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of Saudi invasion of Bahrain approaches (14th<\/sup>\u00a0March), preparations are being made to mark that black day which heralded the end of the Arab Spring. Saudi troops crossed the causeway and helped restore Alkhalifa hereditary dictatorship which was on the verge of collapse. Six yeas on, the ruling tribe has failed to restore law and order, and has requested more help from Turkey. This adds to the troops from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan, Pakistan and the two US and UK bases. Bahrainis want those foreign troops to leave the country so that people assume their sovereignty rights and build their political system.<\/p>\n

In his address to the current 34th session of the Human Rights Council today (8th<\/sup>\u00a0March), the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra\u2019ad Al Hussain, said: \u201cIn Bahrain, the Government has imposed increasing restrictions on civil society and political groups since June 2016, including intimidation, arrests and interrogations, travel bans and closure orders. I repeat that this repression will not eliminate people\u2019s grievances; it will increase them. I am deeply concerned over the increasing levels of human rights violations in the Kingdom. I call on the Government of Bahrain to undertake concrete confidence building measures, including allowing my Office and Special Procedures mandate holders to swiftly conduct visits.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the week 25th February to 5th March the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights documented at least 28 arbitrary arrests including one woman and five children. At least 47 native Bahrainis were tried by Alkhalifa kangaroo courts. They were falsely accused of involvement in 17 cases. They received jail terms totalling 177 years. There were 53 protests in 24 towns and villages. At least 7 were attacked by regime\u2019s mercenary forces. On 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0March Alkhalifa forces raided the town of Aali and arrested two young citizens: Mahmood Marzooq and under-aged Nazar Al Wadaei. From Sanabis, Ahmad Fadhel Abbas was detained in a house raid on Thursday 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0March. The Bahraini authorities are targeting the family members of a prominent Bahraini activist in retribution for his human rights work, Human Rights Watch said yesterday. Since March 2, 2017, authorities have detained the brother-in-law and mother-in-law of Sayed al-Wadaei, a UK-based Bahraini human rights activist who has accused the Bahraini authorities, including senior members of the ruling Al Khalifa family, of serious human rights abuses. Sayed al-Wadaei\u2019s wife, Duaa, told Human Rights Watch in October that a senior official had referred to her husband as \u201can animal\u201d and asked, menacingly during an interrogation at Bahrain airport, \u201cWhere shall I go first, shall I go to his family or your family?\u201d<\/p>\n

Bahrain has taken steps to ban one of the main opposition parties and transfer many civilian judicial cases to a military court, in a new crackdown on dissent and human rights. The secular National Democratic Action Society, or Wa\u2019ad, had perpetrated \u201cserious violations targeting the principle of respecting the rule of law, supporting terrorism and sanctioning violence by glorifying people convicted for terrorism cases\u201d, the Alkhalifa tribe said. This follows the killing of a young native two weeks ago by masked members of the regime\u2019s Death Squads. Senior members of Wa\u2019ad, questioned the official version and called the victim a martyr. To Alkhalifa native Shia majority population are \u201cterrorists\u201d because they want their country freed from foreign occupation and domination by Al Saud and Alkhalifa. Theresa May visited Bahrain only three months ago as part of a drive to deepen UK military and trading links. The UK has been funding efforts to set up a police ombudsman in Bahrain, but conceded in its 2016 annual human rights report that developments in the country were a cause for concern.<\/p>\n

On Monday 6th<\/sup>\u00a0March Rights groups condemned the decision of the Bahraini Parliament a day earlier to approve military trials for civilians as a \u201cdisaster for human rights\u201d in the country. Members of the powerless Consultative rubber-stamped a change to Alkhalifa constitution that would now permit military courts to try civilians, citing the need to combat extremism and unrest in the country. This is a declaration of martial law confirming the failure of the regime to quell the people\u2019s undiminished Revolution.<\/p>\n

On 7th<\/sup>\u00a0March the Bahrain Team at Amnesty International (AI) issued a public statement calling on the King of Bahrain to refrain from ratifying a constitutional amendment that would enable military courts to try civilians, paving the way to further human rights violations. This call comes after the Shura Council, Bahrain\u2019s Consultative Council, voted unanimously in favour of the amendment to Article 105 (b) of the Constitution on 5 March and after it had been voted in favour by Parliament on 21 February. The amendment has now been passed to the King for ratification and could be ratified imminently. Regime\u2019s justice minister Khalid bin Ali al-Khalifa ordered the powerless council to rubber-stamp the change arguing it was essential as military judges were \u201cbest placed\u201d to oversee trials regarding \u201cirregular warfare\u201d .<\/p>\n

Yesterday Alkhalifa court postponed the trial of Nabeel Rajab for the fourth time. The next hearing in Rajab\u2019s case is scheduled for\u00a0April 16<\/span>. The presiding judge also denied his lawyer\u2019s request for release on bail, the judicial source said. Rajab, who was present at\u00a0Tuesday\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0hearing, is charged with spreading \u201crumours and false news\u201d via televised interviews in 2014 and 2015 in which he criticised authorities.<\/p>\n

Bahrain Freedom Movement<\/strong><\/p>\n

source: en.shafaqna.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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