SHAFAQNA– The Al Khalifa regime has prohibited many Shia books including the ones belonging to Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Sistani in highly-security Jaw Prison.
Non-governmental organization Bahrain’s Interfaith has called on the regime in Manama to stop harassing political prisoners and halt religious and faith restrictions on them. The rights group says complaints from prisoners in the notorious detention center is not only about torture and ill-treatment but harassment and intimidation for reading Shia texts or practicing their religious rituals.
The BI’s statement stresses that banning Shia books and processions is a clear violations of Article 19 of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Hundreds of political prisoners, rights defenders and activists imprisoned in Jaw Prison are already on a hunger strike since mid-August in solidarity with and against inhumane treatment of their fellow prisoners who have been under severe restrictions for two years at another ward.
Source: Bahrain Interfaith
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