Kingdom of Bahrain where “Royal Investigators” deny crime in plain sight and protect Murderers

“There are those who were arrested, and investigations proved that they were the victims of individual behavior and were ill-treated in custody,” the king said. “This is not tolerated by God and we do not condone it” – King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.

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The Murder Weapon and Fatal Wound

Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Martyr Ali Jawad’s story, #Bahrain

Martyr Ali Jawad story

How the martyr Ali Jawad Al-Shaikh (14 years old) died on 31-08-2011 (the Eid day)

#Bahrain انقل لكم من شاهد عيان ماذا حدث في سترة في الساعة ٨،٤٠ كان الطفل المتظاهر علي جواد في سترة يتظاهر سلميا مع زملائة يتبع

Translation: I’ll recount what happened from an eye-witness, at 8:40 am Ali Jawad was protesting peacefully with his friends in Sitra.

#Bahrain وقام احد افراد الشغب و من مسافة ٥ متر باطلاق مسيل دموع مباشرة في راس الطفل بغرض القتل و ليس التفريق و استشهد حينها ، يتبع

Translation: one of the riot policemen and from 5 meters distance shot a tear gas canister directly to the child’s head in the purpose of killing him not to separate the demonstrators.

#Bahrain و بعدها تم نقلة الى مركز سترة الصحي و لكنة قد فارق الحياة و جائت بعدها قوات الشغب للمستشفى لاختطاف الجثة و اخفاء الجريمة ،يتبع

Translation: after that Ali Jawad was transported to Sitra health centre but he died there, and then riot policemen came to the hospital to kidnap his body to hide the crime.

#Bahrain و رفض الاهالي اعطائهم الجثة و قامت قوات الشغب بالتحقيق مع موظفي الامن يسالونهم من الذي احظر الجثة فنفى علمة فتم اعتقال ٢ منهم ،يتبع

Translation: his relatives refuse to give them the body, and the riot policemen interrogated the hospital security guards and asked them who brought his body, they said they don’t know and then the police arrested 2 of them.

#Bahrain و الان موظفي الامن معتقلين و قد يتعرضو للتعذيب لان القوات تريد منهم اسم من احظر الجثة لكي يعتقلوة و يخفو الشاهد على جريمتهم القبيحة

Translation: and now the arrested security guards may face torture because the police want from them to tell the name of the one who brought the body to arrest him and hide their ugly crime.

from Twitter Storified – source HERE or HERE

Bahrain activists blame security forces for death of 14-year-old boy during protest
By Associated Press, Updated: Wednesday, August 31, 5:44 AM

MANAMA, Bahrain — Bahraini security forces clashed with anti-government protesters after Wednesday morning prayers, killing a 14-year-old boy who died after being hit by a police tear gas canister, human rights activists said.

The activists blamed the police for the death of Ali Jawad Ahmad, who was among the crowd of protesters in the oil hub of Sitra.

The Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights cited witnesses as saying the boy died after being hit by a tear gas canister fired at close range by police during the demonstration.

Bahraini officials confirmed a 14-year-old lost his life but gave no other details on the possible cause of death. A statement by the Interior Ministry said there was no reported police action in Sitra at the time the boy’s death was reported.

It said an investigation was ordered into the death.

Isa Hassan, an uncle of the dead teen, claimed police overreacted when confronted by a small group of protesters after morning prayers marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

Hassan said the tear gas was fired from about 21 feet (seven meters) away directly at the protesters.

“They are supposed to lob the canisters of gas, not shoot them at people,” he said at the funeral for the boy. “Police used it as a weapon.”

Bahrain has been gripped by ongoing clashes between police and Shiite-led protesters demanding greater rights and political freedoms in the tiny Gulf nation that is the home of the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet.

More than 30 people have been killed since protests began in February inspired by other uprisings across the Arab world.

Shiites are the majority in Bahrain but claim widespread discrimination by the ruling Sunni dynasty. Sunni rulers in the Gulf fear any concessions by Bahrain’s Al Khalifa family to protesters would strengthen the region’s Shiite powerhouse Iran.

Small-scale clashes between police and mostly Shiite demonstrators have become a near nightly event in the tense Gulf nation since authorities lifted emergency rule in June. …source