Activist Condemns Bahraini Regime's Continued Crimes against Peaceful Protesters

Chairman of the European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights (EBOHR) Hussain M. Jawad rapped the al-Khalifa regime for continuing planned crackdown on peaceful protests, illegal detention of demonstrators and torturing of political prisoners. Jawad said the Bahraini regime presses ahead with its planned suppression of peaceful protestors, detention of activists and torturing of prisons despite global condemnation of its totalitarian and illegal behavior. He said that the Bahraini regime resorts to harsh approaches to silence freedom of speech, and added the regime even clamps down on licensed demonstrations - of course, when it, though very rarely, issued license for some gatherings in the early months of unrests in the country. The Bahraini activist also rejected the al-Khalifa regime's claims that Bahraini protestors wanted to stir chaos in the country during the demonstrations on Ashoura day on Sunday. Jawad said the regime does not allow foreign journalists and reporters to visit Bahrain in order to avoid a coverage of its inhuman crimes by the world news media. The al-Khalifa security forces are continuing the clampdown on peaceful protests across the country and have intensified arrests since the start of the holy month of Muharram. Muharram, a religious month is commemorated by Muslims across the world annually. The holy month which started on Friday bans people from killing, arresting, committing any wrong doing or crime. The regime has also insulted the religious slogans chanted by people during the holy month. The Bahraini government, facing protracted unrest by an overwhelming majority of the people, has revoked the nationality of 31 men on charges of harming national security. The men include London-based dissidents Saeed al-Shehabi and Ali Mushaima, the son of jailed opposition leader Hassan Mushaima, as well as clerics, human rights lawyers and activists. Also on the list published by Bahraini News Agency (BNA) were two former parliamentarians from the leading Shiite party Wefaq, Jawad and Jalal Fairooz. Anti-government protesters have been holding peaceful demonstrations across Bahrain since mid-February 2011, calling for an end to the Al Khalifa dynasty's over-40-year rule, end of discrimination, establishment of justice and a democratically-elected government as well as freedom of detained protesters. Violence against the defenseless people escalated after a Saudi-led conglomerate of police, security and military forces from the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) member states - Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar - were dispatched to the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom on March 13, 2011, to help Manama crack down on peaceful protestors. So far, tens of people have been killed, hundreds have gone missing and thousands of others have been injured.