22 yo, Mohammed Mirza, shot, beaten, tortured – Bahrain Prison withholds medical treatment 3 months

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

Bahraini detainee case highlights price of protest
By Bill Law – BBC News – 23 August, 2013

Mohammed Mirza, prior to arrest in June 2012 Mohammed Mirza’s family say he is a peaceful activist; police say he is a violent demonstrator

This is the story of a young man called Mohammed Mirza. The Bahrain police say he is a dangerous criminal. His family believe he is the victim of police brutality and a biased prosecution system.

Mohammed Mirza is a 22-year-old Shia Muslim from the village of al-Dair, close to the capital, Manama.

In February 2011, thousands of peaceful demonstrators occupied Pearl Roundabout, an iconic landmark in the city. They were demanding democratic reform and an end to discrimination.

Among the demonstrators was Mohammed Mirza.

In a country where the Shia majority has long complained of unfair treatment at the hands of its Sunni Muslim rulers, the al-Khalifas, many but by no means all of the Pearl Roundabout protesters were Shia.

The roundabout was cleared by force and in the months that followed, more than 50 people, including five police officers, died. Hundreds of Shia were arrested, thousands were arbitrarily sacked from their jobs and at least three were beaten to death in custody.

The brutality of the government’s handling of the uprising sparked further demonstrations.

Marches and rallies in Manama were banned and peaceful protesters routinely attacked by the police.

In villages outside the city, Shia youth, many armed with Molotov cocktails, taunted and counter-attacked the riot police.

The response – heavy tear-gassing, stun grenades, birdshot blasts and arbitrary arrests – did not discriminate between combatants and the innocent.

Mohammed Mirza’s family and his lawyers have always maintained that he was a non-violent protester. The police say otherwise.

In November 2011, according to his lawyers, he was convicted in absentia for illegal gathering and the vandalising of a police car by throwing stones. He was sentenced to one year in jail.

On 24 January 2012, he was again convicted of similar charges and received a second one-year sentence. In May he received a third sentence, this time of six months for illegal gathering.

All this time Mohammed Mirza was on the run.

He was finally caught in June of 2012 at his aunt’s house in al-Dair, after he had been hit in the back with birdshot the previous week. His family insist that he was wounded after riot police opened fire on a peaceful rally in his home village.

The police version is that he was among a group of young rioters and the birdshot was fired by an officer only as a last resort when his life was threatened.
Charge after charge

Following his arrest, the family told the BBC, he was detained for six days before they had any word of his whereabouts, in a brief phone call he was allowed to make.

When they were able to see him, three weeks after his arrest, Mohammed Mirza told them he had been beaten around his head and face and on his back.

He said that those who had beaten him had deliberately targeted the entry wounds caused by the birdshot pellets still embedded in his back.

“They beat him and tortured him with electric shocks,” a family member who saw him at the time told the BBC.
A tear-gassed woman sits next to a mural of jailed activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja Human rights groups have condemned Bahrain’s treatment of detained activists

“[The police] saw the wounds on his back and they focused the beatings on the wounds to make it more painful for him.”

The Bahraini authorities say Mr Mirza was examined on 30 June and did not have any sign of injuries. They say neither Mr Mirza nor his lawyer complained at that time about being beaten or ill-treated.

Under duress, according to his lawyers, Mohammed Mirza confessed to crimes he had not committed. He spent nearly a year in Manama’s Dry Dock remand centre.

Each time one of his cases came to an appeal court, the judge threw it out citing a lack of creditable evidence, according to one of his lawyers, Abdullah Zainaldeen.

Mr Zainaldeen told the BBC: “We go to court, the prosecution evidence is weak and so the case is thrown out, but then when I go to have him released from jail another charge is brought against him.”

He called it a game, designed by the police and the public prosecutor’s office to keep Mohammed Mirza imprisoned for crimes they had no real evidence he had actually committed.

However a government spokesperson refuted that claim.

“The credibility and impartiality of the Public Prosecution and judiciary in Bahrain remain intact,” the spokesperson told the BBC.

Mohammed Mirza’s family says that as a result of the beatings, he is in urgent need of medical attention. They say his hearing and sight have been affected and he remains in extreme pain as the birdshot pellets have yet to be removed.

“He needs a specialist urgently to see his back and a doctor for his hearing and his eyes. We asked many times and we sent many letters but after all this until now they still have not taken him to any specialists,” a family member said.

The BBC brought his case to the attention of the Bahraini Chief of Police and to the police ombudsman and were told the authorities would investigate the family’s claims.

But according to a lawyer familiar with the case, Mohammed Mirza has now been moved to Jau prison south of Manama to serve his latest sentence and has yet to receive appropriate medical care for his injuries. …source