BCHR: 22 Citizens Arrested in 1 Week, Court Rules Total of 140 Years of Imprisonment in 6 Cases

Bahrain Mirror

Head of the monitoring and documentation unit at the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), Inas Aoun, said that 22 citizens were arrested in the past week (October 19-25, 2016), among which was a child not exceeding 18 years of age.

Aoun confirmed that half the detainees were arbitrarily arrested “through breaking into their houses at dawn without any arrest warrants, which is considered a violation of international conventions on political rights.

 

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