Bahrain Mirror: Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society appealed that there are over 4000 prisoners of conscience in the Bahraini prisons "subjected to political retaliation" after several reports about detainees subjected to torture and enforced disappearance.

The society said "arrests and trials take place due to popular movement demanding democratic transition, justice, building a state of institutions and law and stopping discrimination and corruption."

Al-Wefaq stressed that "detainees are subjected to different kinds of revenge and restrictions through changing the way of deprivation of basic rights into a new way for persecution and violations," indicating that the harsh situations detainees live raise an alarm about their fates.

It condemned "not providing needed care for prisoners who suffer intractable and chronic diseases and the non-human environment for prisons that violates the minimum standard rules for treatment of prisoners."

Al-Wefaq indicated that the violations the prisoners live is found in all the four Bahraini official prisons, however, it is found more in Dry Dock Prison (Pre-trial detention), Jaw Central Prison in comparison with the juvenile and women prison.

The society concluded that prisoners most suffer from lack of public, social security and human dignity, continuation of degrading treatment, religious privacy violation, lack of humane conditions and acceptable health.

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