Cairo , October 27th,2010
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said today that the Supreme Criminal Court will hold a session tomorrow for 23 political and human rights activists in Bahrain among whom are the blogger Ali Abdulemam and Mohamed Said, board member of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, banned by the Bahraini government. The court will charge them with planning to topple the government , committing terrorist acts, inciting the public for overthrow and ruining the constitution.
Cairo , October 27th,2010
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said today that the Supreme Criminal Court will hold a session tomorrow for 23 political and human rights activists in Bahrain among whom are the blogger Ali Abdulemam and Mohamed Said, board member of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, banned by the Bahraini government. The court will charge them with planning to topple the government , committing terrorist acts, inciting the public for overthrow and ruining the constitution.
Bahraini government has recently launched a crackdown on activists and Shiites’ human rights’ defenders before the public elections that were run a few days ago. Abd El Galil AlSingace,PhD was arrested in August ,2010 as well as activists and Shiite leaders ; Soliman Nagui,Abdallah al-Mahrous and other political and rights’ activists. There were news about them being tortured and about the complicit prosecution that were unfair regarding the complaints of physical and psychological torture. Following , the Bahraini prosecution decided to prohibit publishing on that case . Moreover, Bahraini government blocked the sites which published torture incidents and investigations.
The Arabic Network for Human Rights information said,” Bahraini security detained the activists for a long time without trial. Then , the activists were charged with fabricated criminal charges for defending Shiites rights , enjoying their right to expression and exposing the human rights violations committed by the Bahraini government.There is a possibility that the crackdown targets keeping the activists away of the elections such that they would not expose the violations of the Bahraini government”.
The Arabic Network added,” The Bahraini judiciary should hold a fair trial such that the activists would have the right to defense. The court should drop the fabricated charges of those activists as they call for democracy and respecting human rights in Bahrain. There must be an inquiry into the torture allegations ,prosecution arbitrariness as well and the perpetuators should be held responsible”.
The Arabic Network calls on all stakeholders in Bahrain and world wide to follow up on the trial and attend the hearing that will be held at the Supreme Criminal Court in the ministry of justice and social affairs.