King Hamad sucsessful, Human Rights pressure off, brutality continues as abuses run rampant in Bahrain

Bahrain abuses continuing, London seminar told
16 December, 2011 – Shia Post

London: Human rights abuses in Bahrain are continuing unabated despite the regime being indicted by its own commission, a seminar at the British parliament attended by lawyers and some of the victims, has been told.

In the opening speech, Liberal Democrat peer Lord Avebury, said that the regime is indicted not only by the Bahrain Independent Commission for Investigation (BICI) report but by a number of independent human rights bodies which have made similar accusations and more.

The big question is whether the report, ordered by the king and presented by international United Nations war crimes expert, Cherif Bissiouni, is good for Bahrain, Avebury said.

He said for the regime it did one thing, it removed international pressure to stop torture, arbitrary detention, extra-judicial killing and dismissal of workers.

Avebury told the seminar at the House of Lords, entitled “Dead End for a regime guilty of systematic torture,” that the commission also gave the regime “breathing space” after being set up in June. …more