An increased rate of detained photographers which reached 10 within the revenge policy of the media men

The Bahrain Forum of Human Rights showed his concern over the safety of the photographer
 Ahmed Al Musawi after his subjection to hard torture.


The Bahrain Forum of Human Rights showed its extreme fear on the safety of the photographer Mr. Ahmed Al Musawi after his subjection to hard torture during interrogating him, and that including hanging him on the door for more than 4 times, and shocking him with electricity and forcing him to stand for 4 days and beating him on sensitive areas of his body and undressing him of his clothes completely,  and the non-presence of a lawyer with him in the investigation and prosecution sessions, and his non submission to the forensic medicine until now according to what his family had said, noting that his detention was arbitrary and the charges against him are malicious in retaliation for his media as a photographer; noting that Bahrain has signed in 1998 on the convention against torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment.
The Forum said that the "arrest of the photographer Mousawi who won 127 international awards within a revenge policy against media because of exercising their press activity professionally, demanding to his immediate release with the rest of media men, pointing out that "the classification of Bahrain as the most 10 repressive capital cities of freedoms in the past was a natural consequence of the freedom of expression and the press violations.
The Forum continued: "the Photographer Al Mousawi was arrested arbitrarily without showing a warrant during the arrest of his brother who was also beaten in front of his family as well as rooms inquiry, and was taken to the criminal investigation on February early 10, 2014 and his was subjected to severe beatings and torture", adding that" the people in prison knew nothing about his destiny before February 16". The Forum stressed that the outcome of the detainees has risen to 10 photographers which makes the work of photographers in constant danger by the authorities, and we don’t forget the killing of the photographer Ahmed Ismail on 31 March 2012 during his filming for a peaceful demonstration".
He added: "the state continued its targeting to media men through arbitrary arrests of prosecutions or physical aggression, deportation or arrest of foreign reporters of Bahrain, in addition to the state monopoly of Visual and audiovisual media, and direct intervention in the content of the Bahraini press, and the prevention of the deployment of a number of articles and coverage". The release states: "before the judicial proceedings against those accused of the security officials for killing or torturing of media men, whereas the light sentences or the acquittal or the actual accountability are "black Justice" which are produced by a non independent judicial authority in Bahrain."
At the end of its release, the forum called the Organizations of the United States to exercise a pressing role to stop the targeting of authority to media men and to allow organizations of freedom of expression and press to visit Bahrain, arrived to impose a punitive measures that will ensure the safety of journalists and stop the policy of impunity for the crimes against freedom of the press and media."

20 / 2 / 2014
Bahrain Forum For Human Rights