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King Hamad shows his contempt for Human Rights and Dignity, sentences three Bahraini’s to death on World Day Agains tDeath Penality

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Bahrain in the World Day Against the Death Penalty: Three citizens sentenced to death after unfair military trials
10 October, 2011 – BCHR

The trials lacked the conditions of a fair trial and held its sessions in the absence of lawyers and ignored investigation into the torture of suspects to force them to confess, despite the death of a defendant in custody.

BCHR – The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its concerns that the military court (court of national safety) has issued more death sentences against peaceful demonstrators, bringing the total number to three civilians, whom were sentenced to death after swift trials that lacked the terms of a fair trial, and relied on coerced confessions taken under torture as the only evidence, disregarding completely the criticism of the international and human rights community regarding the military trials that violate the right of civilians in a competent court. On the World Day against the Death Penalty the BCHR appeals to the international bodies and human rights organizations to immediately intervene to save the lives of these defendants, to stop the implementation of these sentences, and to guarantee a fair trial for the accused.

On the 29th September 2011, the national safety court (which is a special court, headed by a military judge) ruled the death sentence to Ali Yousef Abdulwahab Al-Taweel (22 years old), who was accused in the case of murdering the policeman Ahmed Al-Muraysi in Sitra, by hitting him with a car, and sentenced the other defendant Ali Attya Mahdi to life imprisonment[1]. The court did not show the details of the rulings or the reasons for the variation in the rulings of the defendants, and ignored the obvious breaches for the right of the accused in a fair trial, where three sessions were held in the absence of Ali Al-Taweel’s lawyer, as well as ignoring the torture allegations that forced him to confess, despite his appearance at the court in a state that was difficult for him to stand as a result of being subjected to beatings on sensitive areas of his body.

Prior to this ruling, the same military court has ruled the death penalty on four defendants[2] on the 28th of April, in a court that lasted less than two weeks, before withdrawing from executing two of them and changing the sentence to life imprisonment on the 22nd of May, while confirming the death penalty on the other two defendants AbdulAziz AbdulRedha and Ali Al-Singace, without providing an explanation for this exception. …more