BFHR: President Obama Should Call on the Gulf Rulers to Allow their People to Participate & Stopthe Prosecution against Shiites in Bahrain Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) issued a statement addressing U.S. President Barack Obama on the eve of his meeting with the Gulf rulers in Riyadh onThursday, April 21, 2016 BFHR called on President Obama to urge the Gulf rulers to involve their people in the management of their countries according to the frame works of democracy. At the same time it called on U.S. President to be explicit with the ruler of Bahrain to stop the policy of prosecuting the Shiite citizens, respect their rights as equal citizens away from hate and in citement speeches, and release the prisoners of conscience who are around 4000 detainees, especially Al-Wefaq Secretary-General Sheikh Ali Salman and the leader at Waad Society Ebrahim Sherif BFHR,also, called on the U.S President to urge the authorities of Manama to lift restrictions on the freedom of expression, allow the Bahrainis to practice their right to freedom of peaceful assembly, stop stripping the citizens of their nationalities, and allow the human right activists Nabeel Rajab, the President of Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), and Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman,the head of the religious freedom unit at Bahrain Human Rights Observatory to travel. Socities could not be reformed except by respecting and promoting human rights BFHR concluded emphasizing that transforming the countries into prisons to torture and insult the citizens apart from the laws, as in Bahrain, could not help in the reform of societies (Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR April 20, 2016 |