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50 Political Prisoners in Jaw Prison Continue Protest against Security Isolation Punishment for Fellow Inmates
2024-03-09
Fifty political prisoners held in the Jaw Central Prison persisted in their protest by refusing to enter their cells, rejecting the prison administration's implementation of the security isolation punishment on several of their fellow inmates.
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Police Force Surrounds Building 7 in Jaw Prison Where Prisoners Are Protesting against the Isolation of their Fellow Inmates
2024-03-09
Armed police forces surrounded Building 7 in Bahrain's Central Jaw Prison on Friday (March 8th, 2024), following a protest by prisoners.
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Jaw Prison Administration Transfers 4 Prisoners to Isolation, Prisoners Stage Protest
2024-03-08
The administration of Bahrain's Jaw Central Prison transferred 4 prisoners to isolation in an arbitrary move on Thursday, March 7th, 2024.
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Jaw Prisoners Return Meals in Protest against Violations of "Striking is Our Right" Agreement
2024-03-07
Inmates in Building 9 of Bahrain's Jaw Central Prison returned iftar meals on Wednesday (March 6th, 2024), in protest against what they described as violations of the "Striking is Our Right" agreements by the officer in charge of the building.
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Political Prisoner in Jaw Prison Hussein Ibrahim Demands Access to Medical Treatment
2024-03-06
Political prisoner Hussein Khalil Ibrahim complained about the Jaw Central Prison administration's denial of his treatment for several ailments.
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2023 Portfolios: Largest Ever Strike in Jaw Prison Amid Deteriorating Prison Conditions
2024-02-12
On August 7, 2023, hundreds of prisoners at Jaw Prison initiated a hunger strike to protest the harsh prison conditions within the facility. By the end of August 2023, the strike had garnered the participation of at least 800 prisoners, amplifying the challenges within Bahrain's primary detention center where political dissidents are held.
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BCHR Demands Jaw Prison Allow Political Prisoner Sadiq Salman to Participate in Father's Funeral
2024-02-12
Zainab Al-Khamis, head of the Monitoring and Follow-up Committee at the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, demanded that the administration of Jaw Central Prison facilitate the temporary release of political prisoner Sadiq Ali Salman to attend the funeral and burial of his father, who passed away on February 9, 2024.
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Bahrain's Jaw Prison Hides Medication of Political Prisoner Mohammad Hassan Al-Ramel
2024-02-07
The family of the political prisoner Mohammad Hassan Al-Ramel, held in Jaw Central Prison, expressed concerns about his fate after he developed severe infections in his legs following a surgery, and not being allowed access to medication by the prison administration.
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Deterioration of Political Prisoner Hamad Kadhem's Health Due to Jaw Prison's Denial of Treatment
2024-02-05
The health of the prisoner of conscience held in Bahrain's Jaw Central Prison, Hamad Yousif Kadhem, deteriorated due to the prison administration's negligence of his condition and its prevention of treatment for him.
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Prisoner Mohammad Abdul Amir Suffers from Convulsions, Falls to Ground as Jaw Prison Denies Him Treatment
2024-02-02
Prisoner of Conscience Mohammad Abdul Amir's health has deteriorated due to the negligence of the administration of Jaw Central Prison, which has refused to provide him with medication.
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2022 Portfolios: Interpol Colludes with Serbia and the UAE to Extradite Bahraini Dissident Ahmed Jaafar
2023-12-09
In the early hours of January 24, 2022, Serbia closed the file on Bahraini dissident and torture survivor Ahmed Jaafar, handing him over to Manama after about two months of detention. This took place despite a European court decision prohibiting it, following pressure from Interpol, now led by the Emirati Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi, and from Bahrain's security forces.
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2021 Panorama: Deaths of Barakat and Malullah, Coronavirus Outbreak, Hunger Strikes, Attacks and Medical Negligence in Bahraini Prisons
2023-10-06
The plight of detainees in Bahrain's prisons was far from an improvement over preceding years. A disturbing narrative unfolded in 2021, revealing deliberate medical negligence, a severe Coronavirus outbreak, hunger strikes, physical attacks, and a lack of humane treatment within the confines of the Dry Dock and Jaw Central prisons.
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Bahraini Interior Minister from the US Declares Views opposing Regime Policy should be Eradicated
2023-06-12
The Bahraini Minister of Interior participated in an event held by the American D.A.R.E. organization, an organization that provides training for security officers. They had an anti-addiction program called "Together" which then turned into a program for combating violence and addiction.
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Jaw Prison Administration Threatens Detainees with "Restriction and Intervention of Special Forces" If They Don't End their Protest
2023-05-05
The Prisoners' Affairs Authority in Bahrain confirmed that the director of Jaw Central Prison, Adnan Bahar, raised the "alert level" in the prison and closed the cells to control the protest of detainees who are demanding enabling prisoner of conscience Abdulwahab Hussein receive his right to treatment and medical care.
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Al-Wefaq: Regime Carried out 470 HR Violations between January and March 2023
2023-04-04
Al-Wefaq Society documented 470 human rights violations practiced by the regime, from January 1 to March 31, 2023, including 283 house raids and 36 arbitrary arrests.
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Fairooz: Parliamentarians and IPU Bodies Willing to Raise HR Issues while in Bahrain
2023-03-04
The "Bahrain Forum for Human Rights" organized a human rights seminar entitled "Updates on Bahrain's human rights situation" with the participation of members of Al-Wefaq Society, media people, father of political detainee Mr. Ali Mhanna and mother of martyr Sami Mushaima.
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Jaw Prisoners: We will Start Open Strike If Prison Administration Continues to Neglect our Demands
2023-02-24
Political prisoners in Jaw Central Prison said that they will go on an open strike if the prison's administration continues to neglect their just demands which they talked about in their audio messages from prison and explained the suffering and ill-treatment they are subjected to.
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Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja Faces New Charge over Insulting Israel
2022-11-17
One of Bahrain's most prominent human rights defenders who is already serving a life sentence faces a series of fresh charges over his protests from prison, his family and rights groups have reported.
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MoI Complicit with Public Prosecution, Fabricates Case against Sheikh Abduljalil: Sayed Ahmed Al-Wadaei
2022-09-30
Human rights activist Sayed Ahmed Al-Wadaei revealed on Thursday (September 29, 2020) that "the Public Prosecution demanded to interrogate Sheikh Abduljalil Al-Meqdad over a complaint lodged by officer Ali Farhan, who lead the assault against Sheik Al-Meqdad."
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Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, Other Prisoners of Conscience Face Reprisals in Bahrain
2022-09-22
Reliable local reports confirmed that the Jaw Prison administration is currently targeting prominent human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja and other prisoners of conscience in Bahrain with reprisals, Ifex website reported GHCR statement as saying.