Shiites are being killed and imprisoned in Bahrain for going on several years now .... but why should the West care, right?! Sunnis are the teddy bears we are supposed to hug and kiss. The West has declared war on Shiites on behalf of the Sunni nations. Iran is the only country that reports on the plight of the Shiite community in Sunni countries.
....Twitter user kidnapped 12 hours after tweeting about torture in Bahrain.
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses grave concern over the continued suppression to the freedom of speech over the internet, represented in the kidnapping and incommunicado detention of online user Jaffar Al-Demstani for tweeting about torture.
On 19 Jun 2013, at 12:39pm Jaffar Al-Demstani (@alidemstani) posted tweets that his imprisoned father, the nurse Ebrahim AlDemstani has refused to attend a prison visit for the second time, in protest against denial of access to the specialist doctor he requires for the pain on his back. Jaffar tweeted that the back injury his father suffers from is due to the torture he received on the hands of colonel “Mubarak ben Huwail”. He added that his father had been beaten with hammers on the bottom of his back which caused a fracture in his coccyx bone. Those were the last tweets from Jaffar.
At around 3 AM on 20 June 2013, the house of Jaffar Al-Demstani in Barbar was raided by armed masked men in civilian clothes believed to belong to the secret police of interior ministry, and they have kidnapped Jaffar and taken him to an unknown location. His family went in search for him at the Budiya police station where the officials there denied having him in their custody, which is a standard response.
At the time of writing this statement, there was no news on the whereabouts of Jaffar and his state of wellbeing. There is great concern that he might be subject to torture given his current status of incommunicado detention..........
Amira Al Hussaini writing at GlobalVoicesOnline:
..“Security considerations” are being cited as reasons behind new regulations which could put an end to the use of popular services such as Skype, WhatsApp, Viber and Tango in Bahrain.
Newspapers quoted Minister of State for Communication Fawaz bin Mohammed Al Khalifa as saying new regulations were being introduced for Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications, which have become popular across the Gulf region, with millions of users exchanging news, views, photographs, and trivial jokes daily, as well as making free calls and connecting with friends and family......
From BahrainRightsOrg:
.....Children as young as 15 are tried as adults, in violation of Bahrain’s obligations to treat all child suspects in accordance with the rules and principles of juvenile justice. Once behind bars, 15-17 year-olds in Bahrain are detained alongside adults which puts them at greater risk of abuse and their needs as children are disregarded....
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