Badriya Ali, a story from a Friend
14 January, 2011

Badriya Ali is a 59 year old woman from Sanabis. In April security forces raided Badriya Ali’s home to arrest her son, Ahmed Mushaima, who is 25 years old. They beat him severely in front of her, banging his head against the corner of an air conditioner repeatedly. Badriya screamed at them to stop beating her son, and an officer responded “shut up, we arrest women too”. They then pulled her old sick husband from bed to arrest him, but he was too weak and fell to the ground, where they left him. Badreya fainted after watching her son being severely beaten. Before leaving, the officers wrote “long live khalifa” on the walls of her home.

Some of those officers were: Faisal Bakhsh, Khalid and Taher AlAlawi. They stole 4500 BD, 3 phones, a laptop and Ahmed’s wallet. Since that raid, according to her daughter Zahra, Badriya went into deep depression.For a week Badriya cried continuously, after which she fell completely silent. When Badriya’s son was released she got a bit better, but a couple of weeks ago their village which is constantly under excessive attacks was attacked again, and Badriya witnessed an old woman being chased by security forces in the street. Since that day Badriya was terrified, and her family had to watch her constantly. She was afraid of any small sound, convinced they would come back for her children. A couple of weeks ago Badriya told her children that she couldn’t take it anymore, and to let her go to the riot police so she can be killed.

Zahra says she was busy with her daughter for five minutes, only to find her mother had set herself on fire on the roof. She died of her burns today.

Yesterday the ministry of Interior announced “finding” the body of 24 year old Yousif Ahmed Muwali in Amwaj. Yousif had gone missing five days ago. When his mother went to the police station to file a missing persons report 3 days ago she was told by officer Mohammed Fayez that Yousif was at the CID and that he was fine, and according to the mother he ripped the paper she wanted to file. This was at the Samaheej police station.

The MOI listed the cause of death as drowned. The MOI image above shows the body “dumped” in the rocks.

The father and a lawyer were at the morgue all evening yesterday, which was surrounded by the riot police according to the lawyer, but were not allowed in to see the body. They were told to wait until the officer in charge is finished eating dinner to get a decision on whether they’ll be allowed in. The lawyer has also said that MOI decided to start an autopsy on the body of Yousif without the consent of the family. At the end of the evening they were told that they should come back at 6am to see that body as they had “orders from above” to not allow them into the morgue.

When the family were finally able to see the body this morning, the uncle reports via the lawyer Hanan AlAradi that there are clear marks of torture on the victims head and neck. There are also cigarette burns on his arms and bruises on different parts of the body. The family has refused to sign the papers until they are allowed to see the autopsy report, which until now has not been given to them.
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