Gulf Daily News - 13 December 2005

By KANWAL TARIQ HAMEED

AN APPEAL for protection by a human rights activist currently on hunger strike in Bahrain has been taken up by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), it was revealed yesterday.

President of the now dissolved Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) Abdulhadi Al Khawaja began a hunger strike on November 30, calling for UN intervention "in preventing further assaults on human rights defenders and to bring violators to justice".
He is not eating, but is drinking water, milk and juice, his wife Khadija Al Mousawi said yesterday.

Press release

I, Moosa Abdali, declare the suspension of all kinds of collaboration with the Public Prosecutions Office (PPO), in regards to the case of my kidnapping and the physical and sexual assault that I was subjected to by the security forces on the dawn of Monday, November 28th, for the following reasons:

• My lawyer Ali Al Jubail was denied entrance to the investigation sessions.

Human Rights Watch

December 6, 2005

H.M. Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Office of H.M. the King
Rifa’a Palace
Kingdom of Bahrain

Your Excellency,

We are contacting you with regard to the case of Musa `Abid `Ali. According to Mr. `Abid `Ali, a 24-year-old activist with the Committee of the Unemployed, plainclothes persons affiliated with or acting on behalf of Bahraini security forces abducted him on the night of November 27. His abductors released him the same night. On November 30 he filed complaints with the police at `Isa Town and with the Public Prosecutor’s office in Manama alleging that his abductors beat him severely, assaulted him sexually, and threatened him with further harm unless he ceased his activities on behalf of the Committee of the Unemployed.