Although media outlets ignore the human right violations in Bahrain the battle for freedom and justice continues in this country. Bahrainis Shia Muslim majority protest peacefully and demand their right and the government targets their gatherings and protest by teargas, arrests the protestors and activists.
Recently the acting president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) and co-director of the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) Maryam al-Khawaja was banned from boarding British airways flight to Bahrain.
Also the health condition of activist Zainab Al Khawaja has been a concern since she is incarcerated with ill prisoners, as her family reported. In their last visit, her family, found her weak and unhealthy. The government incarcerates influential activist with criminals and ill prisoners as a type of torture.
Security forces s surrounded some villages with barbed wire and cement blocks as of August 13th in order to control and limit all movements. The residents of those areas are forced to cross police checkpoints every time they enter or exit the villages. Human rights activist are concerned that such check points increase the probability of arrests of the peaceful protestors.
The government has also increased the presence of security forces at the Salmaniya Medical Complex, the only full-service public hospital in Bahrain.
Hundreds of Shia Muslims have been arrested, tortured, investigated and even killed since the Arab Spring yet lost human right organizations and media outlet do not advocate for the basic right of Shia Muslims in Bahrain.
SRW invites all human right advocates and defenders to help give voice to the voiceless peaceful protestors of Bahrain.
