How to threaten lawyers and activists ... the Bahraini way

If all else fails, videotape their sexual moves.


 ....The Human Rights Lawyer, Mohammed Al-Tajer,    stated that he had previously provided testimony to the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry BICI that “he was videotaped sleeping with his wife and that he was threatened that this tape would be made public.”


According to Al-Tajer’s testimony, after spending a night at his beach house with his wife, more than a year ago, he started receiving threats since January 2011 from who he believes are intelligence agents of the Bahrain government. Al-Tajer was told that they had installed cameras in his beach house, and now had a tape of him being intimate with his wife. The threats targeted his work, and he was told if he does not stop his human rights work they would release the tape. In January 2011 Al-Tajer was defending a group of opposition activists and he led a distinguished protest movement inside the court when he withdrew from the trial for lack of fair trial basis, and was followed by 45 other lawyers, a move that attracted attention to the problems of the judicial system in Bahrain. ....