Cairo in August 18, 2010
The Arab Program for Human Rights Activists follows with great concern the implications of the extremely hostile Bahraini official statements severe against political and human rights activists in the Kingdom of Bahrain, which led the security authorities to arrest the colleague Abdul Galil Sinkece, Head of Human Rights Office in August 13, 2010 after his return from Britain, where he explained in a seminar in the House of Lords the human rights situation in Bahrain, the deterioration of rights and religious freedoms and the ongoing discrimination against the Shiites.
Cairo in August 18, 2010
The Arab Program for Human Rights Activists follows with great concern the implications of the extremely hostile Bahraini official statements severe against political and human rights activists in the Kingdom of Bahrain, which led the security authorities to arrest the colleague Abdul Galil Sinkece, Head of Human Rights Office in August 13, 2010 after his return from Britain, where he explained in a seminar in the House of Lords the human rights situation in Bahrain, the deterioration of rights and religious freedoms and the ongoing discrimination against the Shiites.
Security services continued its repressive series in August 15, 2010 by arresting the activist Abdul Ghani Khangar, Chairman of National Commission for Victims of Torture and the spokesman for the Bahraini Coalition for Equity and Reconciliation, in addition to other political activists and their location is unknown so far.
The Program expresses the concern about the unjustified attack on human rights activists and politicians in Bahrain and the arrests of activists belonging to the Shiites revealing the continuation of religious discrimination in Bahrain against the Shiite majority.
In this context, the Program expresses the full solidarity with the fellow detainees in Bahrain and confirms on the readiness of the stereotyped charges in the Arab world against all activists like: “insulting the State and the dissemination of false news” – which is the legal accusation that provide wide powers and authorities to security services and governments to pursue activists in any peaceful activity they perform.
Moreover, the Program calls upon the Bahraini authorities to immediately and unconditionally release the colleagues Sinkece and Khangar, and to open an investigation on the allegations and claims raised by the fellows on the situation of Shiites in Bahrain and to stress on freedom of religion guaranteed by Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Besides, the Program appeals to all human rights organizations and associations to solidify with us for the freedom of Sinkece and Khangar.