Bahrain Forum of Human Rights said that “the Bahraini authorities have not yet abandoned the use of mistreatment with the detainees opposing it policies, saying that mistreatment has pushed the detainee of conscience Hussein Al- Bannaa (23) years to go on hunger strike protesting to what he has been subjected to in prison; in which he spent in his solitary cell 29 days after being arrested, tortured and treated with a treatment degrading human dignity, and he is sentenced for 11 years until now in unfair trials based on confessions extracted under torture.”
The Forum continued: “in the recent period, the increasing of the rumors issued by Bahrain's Interior Ministry is noted about the escaping of detainees and these rumors are exploited to continue severely the torture of conscience prisoners
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Adding: “The administration of the prison prevents Al- Bannaa to acquire clothes and cleaning tools, and it does not allow him to buy below the main meal, while he is restricted with chains and iron in the hands and feet in a view that brings back the images to the prisons of the Middle Ages; where the prisoners of conscience are deprived from the most basic rights indulging in humiliation and implemented what the reports of human rights organizations called it an international policy of revenge and political persecution,” pointing out that the case of Al- Bannaa is one of the issues that explain the non-allowing of the authority to give the UN Special Rapporteur a permission to visit Bahrain; in which the authority is still innovating torture means, and insists on protecting them officially from criminal accountability.
The Forum wondered about the role of official institutions concerned of human rights situation to carry out the humanitarian situation of Al- Bannaa and the other detainees as National Human Rights Institution and the Commission of Prisoners, Detainees and the Ministry of Human Rights, “pointing out that these formal institutions used to shine the reality of violations and does not support the victims, calling on the International Red Cross and the Other International Human Rights Organizations to stand on the status of Al- Bannaa and the other prisoners of conscience who are subjected to torture and mistreatment.”