REDRESS Trust - 17 August 2004
http://www.redress.org/country_bahrain.html

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V. Recommendations

It is evident that blanket amnesties militate against the attainment of true justice. Decrees 56 not only violates the obligation of the Bahraini Government to investigate and bring to justice and punish those responsible for gross human rights violations, it abrogates the right to a fair trial, as it makes it impossible to individualise or identify those responsible. Decree 56 is contrary to the right to judicial and effective redress, the right to effective recourse against acts that violated victims’ fundamental rights and renders the crimes without juridical effect. Furthermore, in passing Decree 56 Bahrain has violated its obligation to afford every person subject to its jurisdiction the right to a fair and effective remedy as well as the right of non-discrimination in the application of rights.

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Shelter overcrowded

Distressed workers’ number up

It’s an overcrowded summer at the Philippine embassy shelter.
Officials say the number of distressed workers seeking sanctuary at their premises is an “all-time high”.
There are almost 60 Filipina workers, mostly housemaids, who have provided with temporary shelter. But more distressed workers are lining up at the complaints desk of the labour office at the embassy for the past one month.
“The number has gone up. But we cannot refuse them, especially the maids,” said lawyer Venus Bravo, welfare head at the Philippine Overseas Labour Office which operates the temporary shelter.

04:22 PM EDT Aug 10 2004, Associated Press

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - A Bahraini human rights groups said Saturday at least two Bahrainis, including a member of the closely U.S.-allied Persian Gulf state's royal family, being held at the U.S. navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been tortured and abused.

The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights said the allegations were based on a report by three Britons and a phone call by an Arab prisoner freed recently from the U.S. detention camp.

The rights group's president, Nabeel Rajab, identified the Bahrainis as Juma'a Mohammed al-Dossary and Sheik Salman bin Ebrahim bin Mohammed Al Khalifa.