New Bahraini Martyr, AI: Regime’s Pledges Hollow, No Action
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A 59-year-old man was martyred due to the inhalation of toxic gas fired by Saudi-backed regime forces in Bahrain.
Hassan Abdullah Ali, martyred on Tuesday when Bahraini security forces fired tear gas at his home in the northeastern island of Sitra.
Abdullah is the latest victim of regime brutality against the peaceful anti-regime protesters in Bahrain.
Meanwhile, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) has stated that the Manama regime has failed to make good on a promise to implement political reforms in the country.
FIDH has also urged the Bahraini authorities to release all political prisoners and to "support the establishment of an international monitoring mechanism... to monitor the implementation of the recommendations" made by the independent commission.
This came as the Amnesty International stressed that the Bahraini regime's pledges to respect human rights are "hollow without real action."
In the recommendations, the UN asked Manama to investigate crimes committed by security forces during ant-regime protests and to guarantee fair trials for all arrested during demonstrations.
"We've already seen Bahrain pledge human rights reform on the world stage - after the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry, made up of international experts, published its findings last year - but the sad reality is that such pledges remain hollow without real action to back them up," said Philip Luther, Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa program director.
He also said that "unless Bahrain's government now puts into practice the UPR's recommendations at the national level, this will have been just a hollow box-ticking exercise."
Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org
A 59-year-old man was martyred due to the inhalation of toxic gas fired by Saudi-backed regime forces in Bahrain.
Hassan Abdullah Ali, martyred on Tuesday when Bahraini security forces fired tear gas at his home in the northeastern island of Sitra.Abdullah is the latest victim of regime brutality against the peaceful anti-regime protesters in Bahrain.
Meanwhile, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) has stated that the Manama regime has failed to make good on a promise to implement political reforms in the country.
FIDH has also urged the Bahraini authorities to release all political prisoners and to "support the establishment of an international monitoring mechanism... to monitor the implementation of the recommendations" made by the independent commission.
This came as the Amnesty International stressed that the Bahraini regime's pledges to respect human rights are "hollow without real action."
In the recommendations, the UN asked Manama to investigate crimes committed by security forces during ant-regime protests and to guarantee fair trials for all arrested during demonstrations.
"We've already seen Bahrain pledge human rights reform on the world stage - after the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry, made up of international experts, published its findings last year - but the sad reality is that such pledges remain hollow without real action to back them up," said Philip Luther, Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa program director.
He also said that "unless Bahrain's government now puts into practice the UPR's recommendations at the national level, this will have been just a hollow box-ticking exercise."
Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org
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