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Bahraini Activist Blasts Trial of Civilians in Martial Court
TEHRAN (FNA)- President of Bahrain's Center for Human Rights Nabeel Rajab lashed out at the death penalty decree issued against two revolutionary figures in the country, cautioning that trying civilians in martial courts is "political and illegal".
"The decree issued by a Bahraini marshal court is completely unacceptable and is considered as a political decree since the court which issued it is affiliated to Bahrain's ruling family and the decrees issued by them are not compatible with justice," Rajab told FNA on Tuesday.
He reiterated that Bahraini Minister of State for Defense Affairs Muhammad bin Abdallah Al Khalifa who chairs the martial court is a member of the al-Khalifa family embattled by the Bahraini people.
Rajab said that trying people in a martial court is inhumane because they are not provided with an attorney right and are not allowed to meet their families.
Anti-government protesters have been holding peaceful demonstrations across Bahrain since mid-February, calling for an end to the Al Khalifa dynasty's over-40-year rule.
Violence against the defenseless people escalated after a Saudi-led conglomerate of police, security and military forces from the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) member states - Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar - were dispatched to the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom on March 13 to help Manama crack down on peaceful protestors.
Yet, protests and rallies continued throughout the country in defiance of the martial law put in place by Manama since last month. People have announced that they will continue protests until the regime collapses.
Last week, a member of the Society for Supporting Bahraini People, Qassem al-Hashemi, had announced that his group has thousands of documents which show severe violation of human rights by the Bahraini security forces.
"More than 20,000 cases of human rights violation have been registered in Bahrain so far," al-Hashemi told FNA on Sunday, stressing that these are only a part of the crimes committed by the al-Khalifa and Saudi security forces against the Bahraini people.
"The number of human rights violations in the recent developments in Bahrain is way beyond these figures, but because the al-Khalifa militaries and the so-called Island Shield Forces do much of these crimes inside detention centers and away from the eyes of the people, photographers and cameramen, we have been able to register only 20,000 cases of human rights violation in the form of photographs, video footages and other documents," he added.
Last week, Bahrain center for Human Rights declared that a great number of Bahraini women such as political and social activists, doctors, teachers, housewives as well as school and university students are under intense pressures in detention.
Meantime, horrifying evidence has recently shed light on brutality of the Bahraini regime's crackdown on medical staff.
Harrowing testimony of torture, intimidation and humiliation from a doctor arrested in the crackdown on medical staff in Bahrain has revealed the lengths to which the regime's security forces are prepared to go to quash pro-democracy protests.
Interviews obtained by The Independent from inside Bahrain tell of ransacked hospitals and of terrified medical staff beaten, interrogated and forced into signing false confessions. Many have been detained, their fate unknown.
"The decree issued by a Bahraini marshal court is completely unacceptable and is considered as a political decree since the court which issued it is affiliated to Bahrain's ruling family and the decrees issued by them are not compatible with justice," Rajab told FNA on Tuesday.
He reiterated that Bahraini Minister of State for Defense Affairs Muhammad bin Abdallah Al Khalifa who chairs the martial court is a member of the al-Khalifa family embattled by the Bahraini people.
Rajab said that trying people in a martial court is inhumane because they are not provided with an attorney right and are not allowed to meet their families.
Anti-government protesters have been holding peaceful demonstrations across Bahrain since mid-February, calling for an end to the Al Khalifa dynasty's over-40-year rule.
Violence against the defenseless people escalated after a Saudi-led conglomerate of police, security and military forces from the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) member states - Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar - were dispatched to the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom on March 13 to help Manama crack down on peaceful protestors.
Yet, protests and rallies continued throughout the country in defiance of the martial law put in place by Manama since last month. People have announced that they will continue protests until the regime collapses.
Last week, a member of the Society for Supporting Bahraini People, Qassem al-Hashemi, had announced that his group has thousands of documents which show severe violation of human rights by the Bahraini security forces.
"More than 20,000 cases of human rights violation have been registered in Bahrain so far," al-Hashemi told FNA on Sunday, stressing that these are only a part of the crimes committed by the al-Khalifa and Saudi security forces against the Bahraini people.
"The number of human rights violations in the recent developments in Bahrain is way beyond these figures, but because the al-Khalifa militaries and the so-called Island Shield Forces do much of these crimes inside detention centers and away from the eyes of the people, photographers and cameramen, we have been able to register only 20,000 cases of human rights violation in the form of photographs, video footages and other documents," he added.
Last week, Bahrain center for Human Rights declared that a great number of Bahraini women such as political and social activists, doctors, teachers, housewives as well as school and university students are under intense pressures in detention.
Meantime, horrifying evidence has recently shed light on brutality of the Bahraini regime's crackdown on medical staff.
Harrowing testimony of torture, intimidation and humiliation from a doctor arrested in the crackdown on medical staff in Bahrain has revealed the lengths to which the regime's security forces are prepared to go to quash pro-democracy protests.
Interviews obtained by The Independent from inside Bahrain tell of ransacked hospitals and of terrified medical staff beaten, interrogated and forced into signing false confessions. Many have been detained, their fate unknown.
