"The blood of people who don't cooperate": continuing torture and mistreatment of detainees in Bahrain /

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Author / Creator:McGeehan, Nicholas, author.
Imprint:[New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, [2015].
Description:1 online resource (84 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10423621
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Varying Form of Title:Continuing torture and mistreatment of detainees in Bahrain
Bahrain : "the blood of people who don't cooperate"
Other authors / contributors:Human Rights Watch (Organization), issuing body.
Notes:"November 22, 2015"--Table of contents page.
Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from HTML title page (Human Rights Watch, viewed December 2, 2015).
Summary:"This 84-page report concludes that security forces have continued the same abuses the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) documented in its November 2011 report. The commission was established after the fierce repression of pro-democracy demonstrators in February and March of that year. Bahraini authorities have failed to implement effectively the commission's recommendations relating to torture, Human Rights Watch found"--Publisher's description.
Other form:Print version
Table of Contents:
  • Summary
  • BICI Report and Recommendations: The Office of the Ombudsman
  • Special Investigations Unit
  • Abuses
  • Next Steps
  • Recommendations: To the Government of Bahrain
  • To the Ministry of Interior Ombudsman and the Prisoners and Detainees Rights Commission
  • To Member States of the United Nations Human Rights Council
  • To the Government of the United States
  • To the Government of the United Kingdom
  • To the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • Methodology
  • I. Background: Anti-Government Protests, 2011
  • BICI Report
  • Post-BICI
  • II. Post-BICI Reforms
  • Investigations and Prosecutions
  • III. Allegations of Torture, or Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment: Torture at the Criminal Investigations Directorate and Police Stations: Case 1: Hussain Jawad
  • Case 2: Mohamed Bader
  • Case 3: Ahmed al-Fardan
  • Case 4: Hassan Asahiri
  • Case 5: Mohamed Sudif
  • Case 6: Hussain Abu Sa'ada
  • Case 7: Ahmed Abu Sa'ada
  • Case 8: Sayed Ahmed al-Wadaei
  • Case 9: Ali Jamil Marhoon
  • Case 10: Hussain Ali Abbas al-Bahrani
  • Other Reports of Torture
  • Torture of Jaw Prison Inmates
  • IV. Legal Framework: Convention against Torture
  • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  • Arab Charter on Human Rights
  • Bahraini Law
  • Acknowledgements
  • Appendix I: Human Rights Watch Letter to Interior Minister Lt-Gen Shaikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa
  • Appendix II: Human Rights Watch Letter to Nawaf Abdullah Hamza, Chief of the Special Investigation Unit
  • Appendix III: Human Rights Watch Letter to Ombudsman Nawaf M. al-Moawda
  • Appendix IV: Response Letter from Ombudsman Nawaf M. al-Moawda to Human Rights Watch on August 6, 2015
  • Appendix V: Response Letter from Ombudsman Nawaf M. al-Moawda to Human Rights Watch on November 3, 2015
  • Appendix VI: Response Letter from Inspector-General Major General Ibrahim al-Ghaith on November 4, 2015.