“...I was handcuffed and blindfolded the entire time, they beat me on my fingers with a rigid instrument; they slapped me on my ears and I was pulled by my nipples and ears by tongs, and I was hit with a rigid object on my back and that was to force me to sign papers I had no knowledge what was written on them…” - Dr. Abduljalil Alsingace

• Transferring other detainees to hospitals without knowledge of their conditions in solitary confinement
• The Public Prosecution bans any publication on the case in order to cover up torture and other violations
• The continuation of temporary arbitrary kidnappings by the militias of the national security in which they are stripped naked and tortured
• No other choice but to dissolve the national security apparatus and present those responsible to public independent trials
• Any official in the government, who ordered or had knowledge of these violations without immediately stepping in to stop it, according to the International law, is legally responsible

28th August 2010

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights has received with great concern information that Dr. Abduljalil Alsingace (Head of the Human Rights office at the HAQ movement) was subjected to severe physical and psychological torture in which he almost lost his hearing ability and has severe injuries in his back and other parts of his body. The information received also includes the transfer of some activists and human rights defenders to hospitals due to torture including Shaikh Mohammed Habib Almuqdad (religious figure, human rights activist and president of Alzahra charity society of orphans), Abdulghani Khanjar (head of the national martyrs committee and torture victims, and the official spokesperson for the Truth and Justice coalition which is made up 11 societies and organizations, both human rights and political), and Abdulhadi Alsaffer (active member of Committee against rise in prices and Detainees and families committees). The center has also been following up on the kidnappings committed by the national security militia in the Bahraini villages and streets in an offensive and arbitrary manner.

In Accordance to the Security Campaign Launched by the National Security

27 August 2010

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its grave concern over the Bahraini authorities’ decision to ask a hospital in London to stop the cancer treatment that Mr. Hassan Mushaima, president of Haq movement, is receiving. The hospital was informed that the government in Bahrain will no longer pay the expenses for the treatment starting from the 25th of the month. It appears that the reason behind this decision is because of the criticisms expressed by Almushaima in a public seminar at the House of Lords, as well as to television programs about the crackdown on freedoms and the escalation of abuses committed by the security bodies in Bahrain.

27 August 2010

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses a serious concern about the increase in acts of violence which comes as a result of political and security unrest. This time it comes in an incident of attack that was reported by Mr. Muhannad Abu Zeitoun, chief editor of Alwatan newspaper. This incident took place in the morning of Wednesday, 26th August. He claimed that it resulted in a wound in his hand and the burning of a part of his car.

• The NSA is Behind Planning and Executing the Recent Campaign against the Political and Human Rights Activists and the Kidnaps and Torture by the Armed Militias
• It Specializes in Prosecuting the Opponents and Activists and has the Authorities of the Ministry of Interior and the Public Prosecution and is Immune from Legal Prosecution
• The Apparatus is Formed on a Sectarian Basis and Uses the Foreign Mercenaries in all its Institutes and Operations
• Dissolving the National Security Apparatus and the Special Security Forces and Returning its Authorities to the Regular Security Apparatus is Inevitable

Minister of National Security Sheikh Khalifa bin Abdullah Al-Khalifa

23 August 2010

The name of the National Security Apparatus (NSA) emerged during the last days in running the security affairs of the country, as well as its responsibility for the pervasive violations of human rights, the latest of which was the arrest campaign that reached a number of well-known activists, physical assault and sexual abuse and harassments, as well as cutting off roads to kidnap activists by a group of armed militias affiliated with the same apparatus. In addition, the NSA is running a campaign of deliberately smearing the reputation of the political activists, human rights defenders and sons of the Shiite sect, and which is the same technique used by the NSA during the last twenty years to attack the political opposition. The NSA is currently chaired by Sheikh Khalifa bin Abdullah Al-Khalifa.

and In Deference to the King's Will and His Uncle the Prime Minister

22 August 2010

A week has not yet passed from the arrest of the chairman of the human rights office in "Haq" Movement, the academic Dr. Abdul-Jalil Al-Sangaece – directly upon his return from London, and after delivering a speech in the British House of Lords – when the University of Bahrain – which is the institute he works in as a teacher – suspended him from work.

In persistence of the campaign instigated by the speech of the King of Bahrain, the Bahraini Authorities carried out further arrests that target the political activists and human rights defenders under politically tense circumstances and areas that are militarily surrounded, and protests that are rapidly spreading in the villages and areas of Bahrain. There is information of the spread of teams of armed militias roaming the streets and areas of protests, and who are kidnapping those it suspects to be activists, only to take them to unknown centers while being blind-folded, then it tortures them and subjects them to sexual harassment before being photographed nude and throwing them in remote areas.

A Security Alert and an Organized Media Fright and Artificial Amassing the People Following the Aggravating Speech by the King and his Uncle the Prime Minister

17/8/2010

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights received with great concern news on the mounting security deterioration and increase of arrests which this time targeted three well-known human rights activists and defenders, in an organized suppression campaign released by the escalating speeches by the country's King Hamad Al-Khalifa, and his uncle the Prime Minister Khalifa Al-Khalifa, and the Minister of Interior Rashid Al-Khalifa, accompanied with an artificial public and media fright that incites hatred and smearing the reputation of those detainees and criminating them before they are even brought forth to the Public Prosecution and Court which are affiliated with the Executive Authority.

and the Ministry of Interior Prevents the Families from Knowing the Fate of their Injured Sons

The Prison Manager Colonel Ibrahim Saif Al-Najran and to the right The Central Prison of Jaw

12 August 2010

Bahrain Center for Human Rights received new information that a group of detainees in the Central Prison of "Jaw" – convicted in security and political issues - are being subjected once again to assaults at the hands of the Special Forces in an attempt to break the hunger strike which the detainees had initiated in protest against the abuse they faced inside the abovementioned prison and the cruel prison circumstances.

The Arrest of the Human Rights Defender Dr. Abdul-Jalil Al- Singace Declares the Beginning of the Implementation of Threats
Suppressing the Peaceful Protest Gatherings by Al-Singace's House and the Public Prosecution

Whoever Instructed the King to Release those Threats Intended to make him Hold the Direct Criminal Responsibility for any Violations that Result from Granting Power to the Government Apparatuses in Using Excessive Force, Arbitrary Arrests, Systematic Torture, Unfair Trials and Prosecution of Human Rights Defenders, which are Crimes that Could be Considered by the International Courts and Which Do Not Lapse with Limitation

To the left King of Bahrain Sheikh Hamad bin Isa al- Khalifa, and to the right - Human Rights denfender Dr.Abdul Jalil Al-Singace

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights is following up with great concern the tone of explicit threat from His Majesty the King Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and his uncle the Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa against the human rights activists and political opponents on the grounds of incitement against the government, which coincided with the arrest of Dr. Abdul-Jalil Singace upon his return from London, yesterday Friday 13 August 2010, after he participated in organizing a seminar in the British House of Lords regarding the resurgence of systematic torture in Bahrain, the increase of systematic discrimination, and the decline of public liberties and deterioration of the environmental situation which threatens the life of thousands of citizens in some of the areas of the country.