AhlulBayt News Agency

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Thursday

14 September 2017

6:02:20 PM
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Bahraini hunger strikers plead for help amid unrelenting abuse

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Bahraini prisoners of conscience issued an urgent appeal for help amid an unrelenting wave of abuse directed at hunger-striking detainees.

Authorities at the kingdom’s Jaw Prison are reportedly torturing inmates and denying them access to drinking water in an effort to get the prisoners to end their hunger strike.

There are also reports of a growing number of prisoners fainting as a result of dehydration.

More than 1,000 political prisoners declared an open-ended hunger strike last weekend demanding better living conditions and an end to the systematic use of torture.

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