(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - During the conference that was attended by a small group of people and reporters, Maryam al-Khawaja, activist from Bahrain Center for Human Rights, elaborated on the Bahraini regime's “non-stop campaign of state terror”.
Al-Khawaja, who has travelled to Berlin to inform the press and the public about what is going on in Bahrain, pointed to the West's silence as well as double standards regarding the ongoing violence committed by the Manama regime.
“In Libya, you saw foreign troops coming in to protect and save people from their government who is killing them; in Bahrain, you saw foreign troops coming in to save and protect the government from its people who are unarmed, and who are demanding things like human rights and freedoms and democracy,” the Bahraini activist said.
She also noted that at least 4000 troops, mostly from Saudi Arabia, have been in Bahrain since March.
On March 14, Saudi Arabia deployed troops to Bahrain at Manama's request to help crush the nationwide anti-government protests in the Persian Gulf sheikdom.
According to Al-Khawaja's testimony, there have been 1,300 arrests in Bahrain, with 1,000 people still in prison, often facing torture and even death threats.
“I have almost no right to be afraid. I am outside. The amount of threat to my safety is definitely not [the same as] the amount of threat to those people on the streets in Bahrain. I have a job to do, and I am here to do it,” she said.
A German peace organization has planned to hold more events to raise awareness about the ongoing brutal crackdowns on anti-government protesters in Bahrain.
Scores of people have been killed and many more arrested and tortured in prisons in the Saudi-backed crackdown on protests in Bahrain -- a longtime ally of the US and home to a huge military base of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet.
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