The National Assembly of the Bahrain increases restriction and harsher punishments for “act of terrorism”. The new laws include no less than 10 years imprisonment, death penalty, and even revocation of citizenship.
SRW in concerned about the safety and security of Shia Muslim protestors. According to activists the new law is to legalize human rights violations and not to bring security back to the country. Although the authorities state that the increased harsh punishment is for those who are arrested for “terrorist activities”, they do not describe and define what is considered “terror” in Bahrain. According to all dictionaries terrorism is the use of violence, however seems like the Bahraini government has its own definition of terrorism.
SRW believes in Bahrain it is the government that is using violence to stop peaceful protestors. People of Bahrain have started and continued their protest peacefully. In fact no protestor has been arrested with any weapon. Yet the government clearly has been attacking, arresting, torturing and even killing protestors violently.
If the government is no actually implement the law and bring criminals to justice, than many Bahraini forces must be count responsible for death of many Shia Muslims in Bahrain since they are the one acting as terrorist.
SRW urges the Bahraini government to either repeal the new laws or implement them on security forces who acted violently toward peaceful protestors.
