al Khalifa regime maintains near ceaseless assault on students and teachers
Bahrain regime continues targeting students and teachers
13 Sep 2011 – BCHR
Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its deepest concern over the deterioration of the educational system in Bahrain caused by unwarranted decisions taken by the government of Bahrain targeting teachers and university students. Recently: expelled university students have been summoned for investigation, students are on hunger strike in solidarity with their detained friends, and teachers are being transferred to schools in different areas also being dismissed and replaced by unqualified teachers.http://www.crookedbough.com/wp-admin/post-new.php
Dozens of students on hunger strike in solidarity with their detained friends from University of Bahrain
Last June BCHR has reported the arrest of 78 students, most of them were students of University of Bahrain. They were either arrested by having their homes raided and vandalized, and their families terrorized, some got arrested from their universities while other from their villages or at checkpoints. Being involved in politics is not the reason for being arrested as many students who had no involvement in any political activities were arrested for the mere reason of being from a certain sect which indicated for authorities that they are from opposition. Today 6 of University of Bahrain students remain in detention after 5 months from their arrest.
More than 30 students have started a hunger strike in solidarity with their 6 detained friends:
1. Jawad Al Mahary – arrested 29 March
2. Shawqi Radhi – arrested 26 April, House raid
3. Jassim Al Hulaini – arrested 27 March, House raid
4. Jassim AlMukhodher – arrested 26 April, House raid
5. Ali AlMoolani – arrested 16 March, at check point
6. Yousif Ahmed – arrested 26 April, House raid
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Ali AlMowlani, one of the detained students, 21 years, electrical engineering student at UOB and a player at the Bahrain Hand Ball National Team and AlAhli Club. He was arrested at a checkpoint on 16 March and sentenced to 3 years imprisonment in a military court on 12 May for participating in “illegal assembly”.
The other students have been falsely accused of being involved in the March 13 incident where government-sponsored thugs supported by security forces attacked university students[1] in the UOB campus. The attack resulted in four serious cases of injury and about 80-100 students were transferred to the hospital due to suffocation caused by tear gas[2].
The detained students have been through severe torture in their early days of detention and were denied access to their families and lawyers for at least a month as reported by families of the majority of detained students. On 21 June, they were presented to the military court, Shawqi Radhi, was unable to stand because of torture. …more
