Al-Wefaq: Political Authority in Bahrain Not Qualified to Rule

Rasa - Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society lashed out at political authority in the country, few hours after a regime court issued death sentences against six citizens.

News ID: 435492

Date: 25 December 2017 - 22:01

RNA - Al-Wefaq, in a statement, said that sentences are null and void, stressing that they were based on false accusations and forced confessions following savage torture of prisoners, Al-Manar reported.

“The political authority has proven it is not qualified to rule the country due to its punitive and reckless policies,” the statement added

The simplest rights of people in the country are violated as the judiciary system is utilized to punish descents, according to the statement.

Al-Wefaq, meanwhile, urged the international community to “bear its historical responsibility and save the Bahraini majority which has been oppressed” by the political authority in the country.

Bahraini human rights organizations, including Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), Bahrain Forum for Human Rights, Persian Gulf Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (GIDHR), SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights, have issued a report under the title of "Death or Confession", a report that monitors the violations due to secret military courts that tried civilians whose confessions were extracted under torture.

Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society had called on the Manama regime to halt the military trial of a group of civilians, slamming the military trial as a violation of both domestic and international laws.

The case is the first of its kind since Manama altered the country's constitution, granting military courts the right to try civilians, after Bahrain in March approved the trial of civilians at military tribunals in a measure blasted by human rights campaigners as being tantamount to imposition of an undeclared martial law countrywide.

Thousands of anti-regime protesters have held demonstrations in Bahrain on an almost daily basis ever since a popular uprising began in the country in mid-February 2011.

They are demanding that the Al-Khalifah dynasty relinquish power and allow a just system representing all Bahrainis to be established.

Manama has gone to great lengths to clamp down on any sign of dissent. In mid-March 2011, 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.

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