50 Arrested and 54 Tortured Last July, Human Rights Report
2018-10-06 - 8:45 p
Bahrain Mirror: The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights said that the deteriorating human rights situation in Bahrain continued in July of 2018, with 844 recorded human rights violations.
The Forum noted that the violations ranged from arbitrary arrests, house raids, enforced disappearances, unfair trials, suppression of peaceful protests, to other violations described in the report as serious.
It further highlighted that it had recorded 50 cases of arbitrary detention and 6 arbitrary sentences amounting to 20 years of imprisonment, in addition to 54 cases of torture and ill-treatment, including 23 cases of deprivation of medical treatment.
The Forum said it has recorded 508 media pieces inciting hate speech, noting that government-owned newspapers or officials continued to publish pieces that incited hatred against the majority Shia population and encouraged depriving them of their civil rights.
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