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Bahraini Opposition Figure Speaks Out about Torture at al-Khalifa Prisons
TEHRAN (FNA)- Ali Mashima', a senior Bahraini opposition leader, revealed that the al-Khalifa security forces use the most dreadful methods to torture the country's revolutionary forces like utilizing electric shock and chilling the wet bodies of inmates by the freezing air.
"The Bahraini security forces pour cold water on the naked bodies of the inmates and then put them in front of the cold air of cooler in a way that the detainees shiver from the severity of coldness and are made to confess," Mashima' told FNA on Saturday.
He also said that the al-Khalifa forces use electric shock on the Bahraini revolutionary forces and strip them to humiliate them and prove them that they can do nothing.
Rights activists in Bahrain have repeatedly said that the government's harsh tactics and intimidation against opposition forces cannot smother the popular uprising in the Persian Gulf country.
People are being tortured, kidnapped, sexually harassed and assaulted, houses being stolen and raided, villages being raided, and worshipping places are being demolished, the human rights activists reported.
Also, the Muslim Women Movement in a recent statement protested at the brutal and cruel behavior of the Bahraini regime towards women in the country, and revealed that the Al-Khalifa regime has imprisoned innocent pregnant women in horrible dungeons.
"They keep pregnant women in terrifying prisons, martyr their husbands under torture and attack people's homes at night and create panic and horror," the statement said in April, addressing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
In an ominous turn of events, Britain's Independent newspaper reported on April 21 that Bahraini security authorities have intimidated and arrested doctors and other medical staff in hospitals, condemning them for treating individuals wounded during pro-democracy demonstrations.
Some doctors have reportedly been held incommunicado or have "disappeared". All of this is in total violation of the Geneva Convention on treating people injured during conflicts
"The Bahraini security forces pour cold water on the naked bodies of the inmates and then put them in front of the cold air of cooler in a way that the detainees shiver from the severity of coldness and are made to confess," Mashima' told FNA on Saturday.
He also said that the al-Khalifa forces use electric shock on the Bahraini revolutionary forces and strip them to humiliate them and prove them that they can do nothing.
Rights activists in Bahrain have repeatedly said that the government's harsh tactics and intimidation against opposition forces cannot smother the popular uprising in the Persian Gulf country.
People are being tortured, kidnapped, sexually harassed and assaulted, houses being stolen and raided, villages being raided, and worshipping places are being demolished, the human rights activists reported.
Also, the Muslim Women Movement in a recent statement protested at the brutal and cruel behavior of the Bahraini regime towards women in the country, and revealed that the Al-Khalifa regime has imprisoned innocent pregnant women in horrible dungeons.
"They keep pregnant women in terrifying prisons, martyr their husbands under torture and attack people's homes at night and create panic and horror," the statement said in April, addressing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
In an ominous turn of events, Britain's Independent newspaper reported on April 21 that Bahraini security authorities have intimidated and arrested doctors and other medical staff in hospitals, condemning them for treating individuals wounded during pro-democracy demonstrations.
Some doctors have reportedly been held incommunicado or have "disappeared". All of this is in total violation of the Geneva Convention on treating people injured during conflicts
