(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Bahrain said on Tuesday it had released 25 Shi'ite women arrested last week over protest for political reforms and denied that they had been abused in detention.
Police detained 45 women who shouted anti-government slogans in a Manama mall a day before parliamentary by-elections boycotted by the main Shi'ite opposition party Wefaq.
An Interior Ministry official said allegations of mistreatment in detention were not true, the statement said.
Amnesty International said on Monday it feared the detainees had been tortured.
"They were apprehended without arrest orders, interrogated without lawyers present and some of them reportedly tortured or otherwise ill-treated," the London-based group said.
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Police detained 45 women who shouted anti-government slogans in a Manama mall a day before parliamentary by-elections boycotted by the main Shi'ite opposition party Wefaq.
An Interior Ministry official said allegations of mistreatment in detention were not true, the statement said.
Amnesty International said on Monday it feared the detainees had been tortured.
"They were apprehended without arrest orders, interrogated without lawyers present and some of them reportedly tortured or otherwise ill-treated," the London-based group said.
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