Criminalizing dissent, entrenching impunity
Subtitle: persistent failures of the Bahraini justice system since the BICI report
By: Joshua Colangelo-Bryan and Jennifer Hassemer
Contributors: Hassemer, Jennifer; Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [New York, New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781623131401
Subjects: Human rights; Dissenters; Legal status, laws; Administration of Justice; Political participation; Demonstrations
Other titles: Persistent failures of the Bahraini justice system since the BICI report; Bahrain :
Notes: "May 2014"--Table of contents page.

"Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, a consultant with Human Rights Watch and Of Counsel in the New York office of Dorsey & Whitney LLP, and Jennifer Hassemer, formerly of Dorsey & Whitney LLP, researched and wrote this report..."--Page 58.

"The 64-page report found that more than two years after King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa accepted recommendations of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) to free peaceful dissenters and hold abusive officials accountable. Bahrain's courts play a key role in maintaining the country's highly repressive political order, routinely sentencing peaceful protesters to long prison terms. But members of security forces are rarely prosecuted for unlawful killings, including in detention, and the few convictions have carried extremely light sentences"--Publisher's website as viewed June 18, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available online via the World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: Map of Bahrain; title: Summary; title: Recommendations. To the government of Bahrain ; To the Public Prosecution Office ; To the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ; To the Member States of the United Nations Human Rights Council ; To the Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers; title: Methodology; title: I. Prosecution of peaceful protest and political dissent. Military court cases reheard in civilian courts ; Case of the leading activists ; Trial of medical personnel ; Case of Mahdi Abu Deeb and the Bahrain Teachers' Society ; Plot to "kill Asians"; title: Cases originating in civilian courts; title: February 14 coalition; title: Nabeel Rajab; title: Ali Salman; title: Khalil al-Marzooq; title: Convictions for "insulting the king"; title: II. Prosecution of security personnel for human rights abuses. Death of Hani Abd al-Aziz Juma ; Deaths of Isa Abd al-Hassan Ali Hussain and Ali Ahmed Abdullah al-Momen ; Death of Fadel Salman Ali Salman Matrouk ; Deaths of Ali Saqer and Zakaria Rashid Hassan al-Asherri ; Death of Abd al-Karim Ali Ahmed Fakhrawi ; Abuse of medical personnel ; Abuse of Nazeeha Saeed; title: Acknowledgements; title: Appendix I: Human Rights Watch letter to Attorney General Ali Fadhul Al Buainain, April 8 2014; title: Appendix II. Response of the Office of General Prosecutor Ali Fadhul Al Buainain to Human Rights Watch, April 29, 2014.