AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Bahraini female detainee Hajar Mansoor reportedly started a hunger strike earlier this week over her ill-treatment at the Isa Town Women’s Detention Centre.
According to her son-in-law and exiled Bahraini human rights defender Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, Mansoor could ‘no longer tolerate the degrading treatment’, which includes being denied phone calls.
Earlier this month, a U.N. panel of experts declared that Mansoor’s imprisonment and that of two other members of Alwadaei’s family is unlawful.
The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention stated that Alwadaei’s relatives were “deprived of their liberty, interrogated and prosecuted for their family ties with Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei and that these were acts of reprisals”.
Mansoor had observed hunger strikes in the past over similar abuses in detention.
She was sentenced to a three-year prison in 2017 following a trial marred by allegations of torture and other due process violations.
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source : Lualua TV
Friday
18 January 2019
2:23:05 PM
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Bahraini female detainee Hajar Mansoor reportedly started a hunger strike earlier this week over her ill-treatment at the Isa Town Women’s Detention Centre.