Bassiouni Systematic Torture – No discovery, No Revelation, US DOS need only read it’s own reports on Bahrain Human Rights

Department of State – 2010 Human Rights Report: Bahrain

Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

The constitution prohibits such practices; however, there were multiple allegations during the year that security forces employed them. On February 8, Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a report asserting that “since the end of 2007, officials have repeatedly resorted to torture for the apparent purpose of securing confessions from security suspects.” The former detainees interviewed for the report claimed that security officials and prison guards subjected them to “abusive tactics” during interrogation. In some cases in 2009, Ministry of Health doctors found corroborative evidence of injuries that matched the detainees’ claims of mistreatment. According to senior government officials, the government initiated an investigation of HRW’s allegations. At year’s end the government had not published the investigation’s findings.

From August to December, local and international human rights NGOs asserted that security personnel had tortured more than two dozen detainees. During court proceedings from October to December, many of these detainees claimed that officers of the National Security Agency mistreated and tortured them. Detainees claimed that they had been beaten, suspended in painful positions, forced to stand for long periods, deprived of sleep, and subjected to electric shocks. During trial proceedings in October and November, defense lawyers requested an independent investigation into the torture allegations, to include independent medical exams. The prosecutor asserted in December that claims of torture had been investigated. At year’s end neither the court nor the government had released the findings of any such investigation.

Local human rights organizations and lawyers also reported alleged instances of abuse by law enforcement authorities in connection with the approximately200 men and juveniles detained between August and December.

Local human rights activists and attorneys alleged that many of the 23 Shia activists arrested in August and September and charged pursuant to counterterrorism legislation, including a prominent blogger, were beaten, subjected to electric shocks, hung upside down, and beaten on their feet (falaqa). During court sessions in October, November, and December (see section 1.e.), all detainees claimed they were beaten by National Security Agency officers, with some claiming they were subjected to electric shocks, made to stand for long periods of time, and made to sign confessions during or after mistreatment or torture. …source