Urgent Appeal – Immediate Medical Attention needed for Bahrain Political Prisoner Kumail Al-Manami

Bahrain: Urgent Appeal – Provide Medical Attention to Detained Political Prisoner Kumail Al-Manami
28 February, 2013 – Bahrain Center Human Rights,

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association)- The Bahrain Center for Human Rights is gravely concerned over the well-being of the political detainee Kumail Al-Manami whose life is at risk and health is deteriorating. Kumail Al-Manami was sentenced to life in prison in 2010 based on confessions taken under torture. At present, he has been on a hunger strike for more than a week in protest of being denied medical care. Kumail has become infected with a virus which has recently affected many others in Jaw prison; the illness has struck him particularly hard, which puts his life at even a greater risk.

In March 2009, Kumail Al-Manami and six other men from Ma’ameer village were violently arrested following the death of a Pakistani national, whose car was burned during a confrontation with security forces. In March 2010, they were sentenced to life in prison, despite the fact that confessions were extracted under torture, lawyers presented medical reports and photo evidence of the torture and requested an independent team to examine the defendant. This request was denied by the judge. The group was tried and sentenced under the terrorism law, a law that is internationally condemned. …more