Ali AlTaweel Under Threat of Death by Bahrain Court of Injustice based on Coerced Confession

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Bahrain: Court Upholds Death Sentence Based on Coerced Confessions
10 February, 2013 – Bahrain Center for Human Rights

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses concern over the appeal court’s decision on 23 Jan 2013 to uphold the death sentence of

Ali Yousef Abdul Wahab Al-Taweel (23 years old) who has been detained since April 2011, for the alleged crime of running over a policeman on 15 Mar 2011. The death sentence was initially ordered by a military court in Sep 2011.

Arrest, Detention and Torture

Ali AlTaweel was subjected to several human rights violations from the first moment of his arrest. On April 19th, 2011, he was staying at his sister’s house when it was attacked in an early morning raid. He was arrested by masked men in military and civilian clothing, and his hands were tied behind his back with a belt. When he asked why he is being arrested, the officer informed him that he would know after being beating and hung in the air. He was dragged and beaten in front of the neighbours. The officers covered his face with his clothes and hit him harshly and continuously during the ride in the car – he was struck repeatedly on his face, abdomen, back and pelvic area. In addition to the physical abuse, he was also verbally insulted.

At the first location where AlTaweel was detained, the Isa Town police station, Ali AlTaweel was reportedly subjected to torture for a continuous 13 hours where, during which time he was forced to confess to running over a policeman. AlTaweel came to know that he was selected for this accusation because another detainee gave his name saying that AlTaweel had a car with a smashed window. He was beaten with a hose on his feet, back and all over his body. He was deprived from sleeping, drinking water, eating food, going to toilet, and praying.

AlTaweel was then moved to the Criminal Investigation Department in Adliya where he was subjected to more torture. AlTaweel says that the official who gave the orders to torture him was Colonel Mubarak Bin Huwail – a person whose name was also mentioned by other torture victims, including tortured doctors. Bin Huwail is currently on trial for torturing medical professionals. See: www.muscatdaily.com/Archive/Opinion/We-were-blindfolded-handcuffed-and-tortured-Bahraini-medics

AlTaweel says that Bin Huwail tried to force him to confess to running over the policeman, and to say that he was incited by Shaikh Mohamed Habeeb AlMoqdad. He was beaten all over his body including on his genital area where he had a prior surgery. When he informed them of his previous surgery they increased beaten on that area. Under these conditions, AlTaweel gave many names as “inciters” including Ali AlShamlool who was later selected by the interrogators to be charged for inciting the crime. AlTaweel required a surgery for the damage he suffered due to beaten on his genital area. During his appeal trial in 2012 he attended the sessions in a wheel chair following this surgery.

AlTaweel was forced to sign confessions without being able to read them; AlTaweel stopped attending school in the 4th grade, and is therefore unable to read. He believes that his signature was forged on other statements by officers taking advantage of his illiteracy.

The military prosecutor never interrogated the two defendants. Their signatures were taken on pre-made statements.
AlTaweel was then taken to the military prison (AlQurain) where beatings and insults continued, especially when the guards knew about his accusation, he was beaten on his head and back, and the ill-treatment continued until mid-June when the Bahraini commission of Inquiry (BICI) visited the prison.

Military Trial

According to his lawyer, AlTaweel was not allowed access to a lawyer during the first three hearings at the military court. He was also not allowed any family visits before his third hearing session. On 29 Sep 2011, the military court issued its verdict against Ali AlTaweel, and sentenced him to death. The second defendant, Ali Atteyat Allah Mahdi Shamlool, was sentenced to life imprisonment. AlTaweel was accused with “running over police officer Ahmed Ahmed Al-Muraisi on 15 Mar 2011 in Sitra”, while AlShamlool was accused with instigating the crime.

Solitary Confinement

Since AlTaweel was moved to the Jaw prison after receiving the death sentence on 29 Sep 2011, he was placed in solitary confinement. He only leaves his cell during bi-weekly family visits. His lawyer fears that AlTaweel’s mental condition has been severely affected by the extended amount of time he has spent in solitary confinement, and believes that his sanity may be in danger. …more

Mohammed Mirza from Bahrain – Al-Dair is targeted by his condition deterioration.
10 November, 2013

With great concern and lack of a ploy we are watching the deterioration of our son’s health condition Mohammed Mirza Rabia a 22 year old from AlDair . After a full year suffering from a pre-trial detention on pending issues that had not have any real condemn evidence. However, when a case ends with a realease, he is once again covicted with a new one and he is now convicted for more than 14 cases and all of this is because of him being targeted by some of the officers in Samaheej police station specially an officer called Nawaf Alhashel and Yusuf Mulla Bakhit. Mohammed was transfered to Jao prison 3 months ago. Because of Mohammed Mirza’s arrest circumstances on June 27, 2012 after several raids by an ambush prepared for him right next to his house and he was beated on all over his body and insulted psychologically, physically and sexualy in order to take baseless confessions out from him, and after a stiff resistance to all kinds of beatings, torture and cruel treatment , inhumane beatings resulted that :

1 – Our son Mohammed Mirza is now very weak in the senses of hearing and sight due to spraying hot material in his eyes, the continued beating on the eye and blinding him for more than 5 days after the arrest also beating him on the ear. His sight and hear senses are getting worse, he needs to be seen by a specialist and all what we have got from all of our continued speeches is to examine the situation only, without treatment! and when we asked for the report from Samaheej police station they refused to give us a copy of it! Despite being examined by a doctor in King Hamad university Hospital and The Castle Hospital and both were recomended to be transfered to AlSalmaniya Medical Complex but until this day after nearly a year and a half of being prisoned he had not been transfered there and he did not have any ENT or eye appointments in Alsalmaniya medical complex. He also, was not examined by any consultant or specialist in eyes diseases and his sight sense is getting worse due to the lack of coordination between the Ministry of interior represented by Samaheej police station, Jou prison and King Hamad University Hospital and Salmaniya Medical Complex! Is this deliberate neglect and porpused for our son, in particular, to increase his pain and immortal youth day after day, or is it that all detainees patients suffering horrors!

2 – Mohammed Mirza suffers from severe back pain due to erosion of the paragraphs of his spine due to the shotgun friction with the spine paragraphs because of torture. Finally after a year and a half Mohammed was examined by a specialist in Salmaniya Medical Complex and he was recommended for a medical belt that is worn permanently 24-hour in order not to get worse and a request for MRI Scan to be sure. and that was two months ago, and until today he has not been taken for physiotherapy they also rejected giving him the belt under the pretext of containing the components iron and this is forbidden by the policy of Jau prison and the doctor asked to remove the iron parts or give him a replaceable belt as for his urgent needs to it despite the inefficiency effect without the iron parts, but the Police refused to recieve it and until today he is not treated in any way that recommended by the doctor and he is feared to be paralyzed or disable and the deterioration of his health. Mohammed Mirza was arrested for multiple pending issues for nearly a year, and many release and treatment requests asked by his lawyer did not work and every time he is released a series of issues saved against unknown are issued against him one after the other. after the challenge and the threat of officers from Samaheej police station without deterring and accountability of officials we had conveyed his suffering to the Minister of Justice and the General Attorney in more than one letter of request in setting an impartial investigation judge into what was attributed to him and they did not respond not to investigating with the responsibility or giving treatment, and, unfortunately, they ratified the officers’s threats and us his family that he would not be allowed to be outside the prison. our son Mohammed Mirza spent nearly a year in custody and one year from his age disappeared and he was sentenced in one case only for one year and instead od clearing and calculating the period he spent in prison their decision was that the period during which the detainee spent in prison will not be counted he will stay another year in prison and the heart of his mother is pulsing blood on his youth, which is deteriorate in front of her eyes. The fate of our son is hanging and he walks to nowhere without taking any action to deter officials and without taking humanity and his constitutional right to treatment course.

We are asking for a response from the officials in the Ministry of Interior and Health, each according to his humanity and moral responsibility for these important questions:

1. When will you provide adequate treatment for our son while he is in prison.?

2. Who is accountable for holding those responsible for torturing and accusing our son? They must be brought to justice because of their misuse of power in putting innocent people in prison.

Detainee Mohammed Mirza family: 36722210 – 36868151
بتاريخ Nov 10, 2013 10:19 PM، جاء من “Lawyer Mohamed Altajer” :

ترجمة الله يخليك ضروري

LAWYER MOHAMED ALTAJER
Secretary General of the Bahrain Coalition for Human Rights Observatory

SEE BBC Story from August HERE
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