Bahrain regime abuses of press and media people

BPA: Announces the Release of its Report on Abuses Against Media People
2 October 2011 – SCHR

LONDON – Bahrain Press Association “BPA”, the London-based association concerned with defending Bahrain media and press people, announced today the release of its first report documenting the outrage practiced by the Bahraini regime against scores of media people.

The bi-lingual report, a first-of-its-kind, is 60-page long and sheds light on the press status in Bahrain amid the brutal crackdown against pro-democracy protesters since February onwards for those people who had been covering the protests. The report documents the unjustified reaction of the Bahraini regime against 129 media people, most of which were Bahraini nationals and some foreigners, which led to arbitrarily detain them depriving them the basic human rights along with the killings of two of them while in custody. For fear of further reprisal, a significant number of journalists chose to flee their home and prefer living in exile.

“The report is a joint effort of many people from both inside Bahrain and abroad. It goes by the title ‘Word Leading to Death’.” The BPA said. “As part of the Arab sprig waves spreading in the Middle East, Bahrain has seen thus far many abuses in terms of human rights and the report depicts the brutal harassment faced by media people covering pro-democracy protests.”

The report will be followed by another one to be released by the year end. It has been released with a two-fold-purpose. One is that it calls on all concerned human rights organizations to intervene and use all possible means to put pressure on the Bahraini regime to stop abusing media people. And the other thing is to institute investigations and take appropriate actions against all people responsible and ensure justice is in place to prevent any possible recurrence of violations in the future.

BPA Report HERE