Bahrain Forum for Human Rights: 24 cases of enforced disappearance were monitored in November
The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) said that 24 cases of enforced disappearance of citizens from 10 Bahraini regions were observed between October 19 and November 22. The total number of days of enforced disappearance was 348 days. The citizens are from the following areas: Bani Jamra, Nuwaidrat, Abu Saiba, Karana, al-Eker, al-Musalla, Duraz, Sitra, al-Daih, A’ali. Five Bahraini citizens were forcibly disappeared for 18 days. Four of them, who are Hassan Ja’afar al-Asfour, Sayed Ali Jalal, Sayed Hussein Hashem, and Ali Yaqoub, are from Abu Saiba, while the fifth, Mohammed Abdul-Hadi al-Bakali, is from al-Musalla. Ali Fadhel, who is from Bani Jamra, was forcibly disappeared for 22 days, Ali Jamil al-Khawaja disappeared for 21 days, and Sadeq Jaafar al-Samak, who is from Aali, disappeared for 23 days, until November 10.
The other citizens who have been subjected to enforced disappearance are: Mohammed Riad Rashed al-Karani from Karana, Ahmad Yousef, Faisal Ahmad al-Dammami from al-Eker, Sayed Ali and Sayed Hussein from al-Musalla, Mahmoud Mohammed Saleh al-Durazi, Isa Ahmad Isa, Abdullah Ahmad al-Dammami, Mohammed Abdul-Nabi Abdul-Wasi, Ahmed Abbas al-Anfouz and Sayed Mahmoud Ali. The BFHR pointed out that in Bahrain, the security authorities refuse, in many cases, to disclose the places of detention of detainees or the reason for their detention for days and in some cases for weeks, and do not allow them to contact their relatives or lawyers, which can be considered enforced disappearance.
Not disclosing the fate or whereabouts of detainees is not only considered an enforced disappearance, but also increases the risk of torture, ill-treatment and other abuses against detainees that may compromise the security and human dignity of persons.
The existence of enforced disappearances in Bahrain is a flagrant violation of the international and national laws and is contrary to the principle of the rule of law and human rights. One of the international laws prohibiting enforced disappearance is the UN Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 47/133 of 1992 and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
Bahrain is not a party to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, however, the UN Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance obliges Bahrain to protect persons from enforced disappearance.
Bahrain Forum for Human Rights 12/3/2019
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