
NGOs In an urgent appeal to International Community Stop executions in Bahrain The organizations that signed this appeal received verydisturbing information from the families of the detainees and those sentencedto death, Ahmed Isa Ahmed al-Mellali and Ali Mohammad Ali Hakim al-Arab. Theyreceived a call from the Jaw prison administration on a special and urgentvisit at noon today. The families met and held the visit for a period of no morethan one and a half hours, and the persons sentenced to death were not informedof the execution or not. It is worth mentioning that onJanuary 14, 2017, the families of those sentenced to death, Abbas al-Sami'a,Ali al-Singace and Sami Mushaima received calls in the same manner, withoutexplaining the reason for the visit, and ended their execution at dawn the nextday. The signatory organizations have documented that the al-Mellali and al-Arab have been subjected tosevere torture in Criminal Investigations Directorate, extracting confessionsfrom them under torture, and receiving threats to liquidate their relatives ifthe confessions are not signed. One of the following violations was the enforceddisappearance and torture in the Criminal Investigation Directorate, the lackof access to a lawyer in the Public Prosecution or the detention Centers, beentortured and sexual harassed by officers of the Ministry of the Interior andNational Security Authority. Ali al-Arab was subjected to thefollowing violations: torture and ill-treatment in the criminal investigationbuilding, removal of his toenails, suspension and punching on the nose andmouth (hearing loss naturally), humiliated and humiliated when he wastransferred to the dry dock and subjected to torture on 31 January 2018 After being arbitrarily sentenced to deathand transferred to the central prison by the guards of building number one. The human rights organizations signed on this statementexpress their deep concern and fear of the execution of the victims Ahmedal-Mellali and Ali al-Arab and affirm their strong opposition to the deathpenalty and call upon the international community, especially Bahrain'sinternational allies, the United Kingdom and the United States, andinternational human rights organizations to exercise maximum pressure on theKing of Bahrain to stop execution and abolition of death sentences. Signatures: SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights Bahrain Forum for Human Rights Gulf Institute for Democracy and Human Rights |