The Bahrain Forum documents the violations against the prisoner of conscience Ahmed Jaafar

The report was issued on November 29, 2022

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The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights documented the case of Bahraini prisoner of conscience Ahmed Jaafar, who has been arbitrarily detained in Bahraini prisons since January 24, 2022, after he was forcibly handed over to the Bahraini authorities by the Serbian government, despite a decision issued by the European Court of Human Rights to stop his deportation.

In a statement on the issue of handing over the detainee Ahmed Jaafar, Hussain Nouh, the monitoring and documentation official at the Bahrain Forum for Human Rights, said, "As a Bahraini human rights and civil society, we hoped that the Serbian authorities would take into account the results of the decision issued by the European Court of Human Rights to stop his deportation. However, as a result of evading the decision, the Bahraini authorities persisted in the violations committed against Ahmed Jaafar, for which the Serbian authorities bear responsibility in the first place. Their extradition of a political opposition refugee resulted in subjecting him to cruel torture and ill-treatment. We call on the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to correct its mistake against the prisoner of conscience Ahmed Jaafar and to pressure the Bahraini authorities to release him or return him to Serbia.”

In its report on the case of the detainee Ahmed Jaafar, the Forum shed light on the most prominent human rights violations that Ahmed Jaafar has been subjected to since his arrest, from the total arbitrary sentences issued against him and the circumstances of their issuance, to the continuous torture and ill-treatment he is subjected to, his weak health condition and the treatment he needs, in addition to The complaints that he and his family submitted to the various concerned authorities, after which he did not receive any actual result that puts an end to the violations. The most recent of which was on October 26, 2022, when the family submitted a set of complaints to the National Institution for Human Rights, and received a negative response on November 23, 2022 regarding all the demands it submitted.