The 61-page report, “‘The Court is Satisfied with the Confession’: Bahrain Death Sentences Follow Torture, Sham Trials,” based primarily on court records and other official documents, found serious and persistent human rights violations underlying the convictions and death sentences of cases of eight men examined for the report. The men are among 26 who are currently on death row, their appeals exhausted. Trial and appeal courts cavalierly dismissed credible allegations of torture and ill-treatment during interrogation instead of investigating them, as required by international and Bahraini law. The courts routinely violated defendants’ rights to fair trials, including the right to legal counsel during interrogation, the right to cross-examine prosecution witnesses, and through reliance on secretly sourced reports.
Universal Periodic Review Submission on Bahrain
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Bahrain continues the policy of deliberate medical neglect at prisons
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In December, several human rights groups wrote a letter to the incoming Biden administration requesting changes in U.S. foreign policy to Bahrain. 18 organizations, including Americans for Democracy and Human Rights and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, provided a blueprint on how to mitigate violence in Bahrain. According to Al Jazeera, the letter references Bahrain’s peaceful 2011 Arab Spring uprising, where thousands of protestors demanded democratic reform. However, the movement was quickly suppressed by the oppressive Al Khalifa regime in a “barrage of human rights violations followed by the imposition of draconian measures.” Concluding the letter, the organizations detail specific foreign policy recommendations, which include the release of wrongly imprisoned political opposition figures, compensation for victims of government abuse, and punishment for officials who have committed human-rights related crimes. Additionally, it was reported that the signatorie