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Second Session: Key Word to Describe Actios in Bahrain is Arbitrary |
Second Session of the Fourth Human Rights International Conference was opened in Monday in the Lebanese capital headed by dr. Ibrahim Serhan, Barhaini lawyer from Salam (peace) Organization.
Speakers of the second session include Salem Haddad, a member of Tunisian Labor Union, Abigail Bach, British lawyer, Mohamad Sergal, a member Salam organization, and Abdul-Jalil Youssef, head of Documentation and Monitoring Committee in the Bahraini Association for Human Rights.
Salem Haddad said that there are two conflicting parties in Bahrain: an authority which insists on pursuing the policy of impunity, and a people expressing the will for reform.
For her part, the British lawyer said that the violations committed by the Bahraini regime can only be described as "arbitrariness," focusing on the removal of citizenship from Bahraini opposition activists "as the result of their expressed political views and/or criticisms of human rights violations by the Bahraini authorities."
Bach said that the key word to express Bahraini\'s violations is "arbitrary," advising the individual having their citizenship revoked to seek legal advice from an international court, noting that "Article 28 of the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons requires contracting states to issue stateless persons lawfully staying in the territory with travel documents. Bahrain is not a contracting state but the principle remains."
"It may be possible to argue that since the removal is unconstitutional and unlawful, the individual retains their legal rights until the court has ruled upon it but this is a question that will need to be answered by local lawyers. If it is the case that no legal action can commence in Bahrain then the obligation to exhaust all domestic remedies will be seen as fulfilled," the British layer said.
She indicated that "there is no international judicial body that has jurisdiction to overrule the removal the citizenship from Bahraini’s on the basis of their political or other opinions. However, there is a large body of international law that demonstrates that these actions are contrary to customary international law. Reference to this body of law can be used if individuals have access to the Bahraini courts."
Bach concluded that "whilst the Bahraini authorities are under no legal obligation to comply with this law, politically it would ill advised to flagrantly and repeatedly breach it and it will no doubt diminish their status in the international community."
Under the title of "treaties and international instruments signed by Bahrain before the international community," British Muhammad Sirgal delivered a speech on behalf of Salam organization for human rights, pointing at sectarian and discrimination practices by the authority in Bahrain.
Sirgal said the Bahraini regime pursues the policies of arbitrary dismissal from work and the development discrimination across the Bahraini areas, in addition to targeting places of worship, noting that the regime banned the Bahraini Shiite from building mosques in common areas, and ordered the halt to projects in Hamad city resided by thousands of Shiites.
He also reviewed the sectarianism practiced by the Bahraini authority in sabotaging places of worship and cracking religious banners, stating that the regime targeted the Shiite cleric by dismantling the Secular Islamic Council.
Head of Documentation and Monitoring Committee in the Bahraini Association for Human Rights, Abdul-Jalil Youssef, underlined the abuse against the activist Nabil Rajab as a result of his tweets, claiming they "harm the civic peace."
Youssef also pointed at the arrest of activist Hussein Barwiz because of an "illegal assembly", who stated that he was subjected to physical and psychological torture. He was also deprived of sleep and subjected to sexual harassment, in addition to several other activists who were arrested for tweets, assembly, or other reasons.
He demanded the immediate and unconditional release of prisoners of conscience in Bahrain, and an end to harassment that affect the detainees, and to allow human rights defenders in Bahrain to deal with international bodies with impunity.
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Added on: 2015-04-23 07:41:54 |
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