(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society said Ian Henderson's death reminded the Bahrainis of the decades of oppression, torture and the death rooms in the Interior Ministry's prisons. Over those long decades, Bahrain was transformed into a huge prison in which the regime forces led by this torturer (Ian Henderson) had perpetrated various brutal abuses that shock the human conscience. The regime was supervising those sadistic practices; while both the country and citizens paid the price for his terrible doctrine that still dominates the security services in Bahrain.
Today, Bahrain contains tens of torturers because the regime is encouraging and supporting these types of models, Al-Wefaq stated.
Ian Henderson's death raises questions on prosecuting the torturers of the past decades in which the citizens suffered from terrifying violations and abuses. This awful torturer and his employees were creative to intimidate Bahraini youth from different factions and sects with all types of torture, al-Wefaq added.
After Bahrain's independence, an uprising erupted demanding to reopen the parliament and end the State-Security law until the beginning of the new millennium. During this period, and especially in the nineties, the Bahraini youth suffered with no mercy under this torturer, as their tortured bodies are yet the unquestionable witness and proof for these dark times.
Ian Henderson deserved to be prosecuted as a criminal against humanity and his death does not quash a three-decade demand to prosecute torturers and killers and human rights abusers. The blood that has been shed behind the Bahraini bars over the past decades cannot be vanished from the nation's memory which is heavily weighted with agonies.
Henderson had established a wide base for violations which gave the security services an extraordinary experience in perpetrating creative torture. The abuses that took place during the state of emergency in 2011 were based on what he had established for and reveal the ugly truth of the disgusting mentality the security forces, army and police are based on.
Al-Wefaq said that recruiting torturers and mercenaries to crackdown the rightful demands of the Bahraini people is an ongoing official policy since the 70s. Henderson is a prominent model for the inhumane torturers who overpopulate the Bahraini jails and yet perpetrate the ugliest abuses.
The dark prison rooms in which AbdulKarim Fakhrawi, Ali Saqer, Zakariya al-Asheeri and Hasan Jassim Maki were tortured to death in during the state of emergency in 2011, had witnessed the killing of Mohammed Bucheeri in the 70s and Sheikh Jamal al-Asfoor in the 80s and Saeed al-Iskafi, Sayed Ali Ameen and Shaikh Ali Al Nachas in the 90s. Henderson's policy of obtaining coerced confessions is systematically implemented today in the same dark rooms.
Henderson and his fellow torturers are supposed to be tried for the torture and crimes they have committed but the unconstitutional Decree No. 56 in 2002 was issued to protect them and delayed the national reconciliation and failed to provide justice for victims and provided impunity for torturers instead. This inhumane decree came in contradiction to the constitution and international human rights covenants.
Al-Wefaq pointed out that Henderson was merely brought to suppress the legitimate demands' movements and protests demanding peaceful transition to democracy over the past three decades. They primarily brought him in to put an end to the people's struggle for freedom and dignity. Rightful popular movement can't be silenced, as all brutal attempts to achieve this have been failed. The only way out of this impasse is to go for real democracy and justice in which people are the source of all powers and own the full sovereignty. As long as the popular demands are not fulfilled, bringing all world's torturers in Bahrain to stop the pro-democracy struggle will dramatically fail.
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Today, Bahrain contains tens of torturers because the regime is encouraging and supporting these types of models, Al-Wefaq stated.
Ian Henderson's death raises questions on prosecuting the torturers of the past decades in which the citizens suffered from terrifying violations and abuses. This awful torturer and his employees were creative to intimidate Bahraini youth from different factions and sects with all types of torture, al-Wefaq added.
After Bahrain's independence, an uprising erupted demanding to reopen the parliament and end the State-Security law until the beginning of the new millennium. During this period, and especially in the nineties, the Bahraini youth suffered with no mercy under this torturer, as their tortured bodies are yet the unquestionable witness and proof for these dark times.
Ian Henderson deserved to be prosecuted as a criminal against humanity and his death does not quash a three-decade demand to prosecute torturers and killers and human rights abusers. The blood that has been shed behind the Bahraini bars over the past decades cannot be vanished from the nation's memory which is heavily weighted with agonies.
Henderson had established a wide base for violations which gave the security services an extraordinary experience in perpetrating creative torture. The abuses that took place during the state of emergency in 2011 were based on what he had established for and reveal the ugly truth of the disgusting mentality the security forces, army and police are based on.
Al-Wefaq said that recruiting torturers and mercenaries to crackdown the rightful demands of the Bahraini people is an ongoing official policy since the 70s. Henderson is a prominent model for the inhumane torturers who overpopulate the Bahraini jails and yet perpetrate the ugliest abuses.
The dark prison rooms in which AbdulKarim Fakhrawi, Ali Saqer, Zakariya al-Asheeri and Hasan Jassim Maki were tortured to death in during the state of emergency in 2011, had witnessed the killing of Mohammed Bucheeri in the 70s and Sheikh Jamal al-Asfoor in the 80s and Saeed al-Iskafi, Sayed Ali Ameen and Shaikh Ali Al Nachas in the 90s. Henderson's policy of obtaining coerced confessions is systematically implemented today in the same dark rooms.
Henderson and his fellow torturers are supposed to be tried for the torture and crimes they have committed but the unconstitutional Decree No. 56 in 2002 was issued to protect them and delayed the national reconciliation and failed to provide justice for victims and provided impunity for torturers instead. This inhumane decree came in contradiction to the constitution and international human rights covenants.
Al-Wefaq pointed out that Henderson was merely brought to suppress the legitimate demands' movements and protests demanding peaceful transition to democracy over the past three decades. They primarily brought him in to put an end to the people's struggle for freedom and dignity. Rightful popular movement can't be silenced, as all brutal attempts to achieve this have been failed. The only way out of this impasse is to go for real democracy and justice in which people are the source of all powers and own the full sovereignty. As long as the popular demands are not fulfilled, bringing all world's torturers in Bahrain to stop the pro-democracy struggle will dramatically fail.
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