Report:

Detainees in Bahrain's Jaw Prison Banned from Praying, Performing Religious Rituals

Rasa - Reports said that Jaw Prison authorities are preventing detainees from performing prayers or their religious rituals in a widespread campaign launched since January, after the authorities implemented prison sentences against 3 activists.

News ID: 428288

Date: 20 March 2017 - 23:41

RNA - "We received confirmed reports that detainees held in block 4 in Jaw Prison are not allowed to perform Friday prayers and religious rituals, and those who practiced their religious freedoms were punished," deputy president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights said.

The authorities in the prison have been harassing political prisoners and a number of prison guards assaulted one of the detainees for praying and reading a Duaa (supplication).

Manama has gone to great lengths to clamp down on any sign of dissent as many opposition figures in the country have ended up behind the bars. The strict measures imposed on the Bahraini people have been intensifying since March 14, 2011, when troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were deployed to assist Bahrain in its crackdown.

Scores of people have lost their lives and hundreds of others sustained injuries or got arrested as a result of the Al Khalifah regime’s crackdown.

Meanwhile, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights says regime forces have detained dozens of pro-democracy activists over the past week as the Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown on political dissidents and rights activists in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.

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