Bahrain Public Prosecution Admits to Interrogating Children & Detaining them
2016-02-23 - 1:55 ص
Bahrain Mirror: The Public Prosecution in Bahrain admitted to interrogating a number of children between the ages of 9 and 14, noting that some were questioned over charges of terrorist acts. The prosecution added that some of them were also detained in the juvenile detention center.
In an official statement issued on Sunday (February 21, 2016), the Attorney-General Abdulrahman Al-Sayed said that the Public Prosecution "conducted investigations into incidents over which juveniles were accused of crimes of a criminal nature, as the police had received a report about six persons breaking into a school and causing damage. One of the suspects was identified and taken into custody."
"Three others were arrested over the results of investigations. The prosecution further investigated the incident, interrogated the detained suspects whose ages ranged between 9 and 14 and raised against them charges of rioting, arson, sabotage and trespassing. The prosecution them referred them to a juvenile court, which ordered holding them at the juvenile center pending investigations," he further stated.
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