AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Hunger striking detainees in Bahraini prisons are reportedly being deprived of their medication, stripped of their communication privileges and denied their religious freedoms.
According to the Washington-based Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), one of the prisoners, Mohamed Hameed Al-Daqqaq, has not been given his medication for an entire week.
Al-Daqqaq suffers from a number of ailments, including sickle-cell anemia.
Meanwhile, Bahraini activist Ebtisam al-Saegh reported on Monday that a number of detainees are not being allowed contact with relatives while many are also denied time in the prison courtyard.
Earlier, rights campaigners reported that authorities in Bahrain’s Jaw Prison had forbidden detainees from observing the annual Ashura commemorations in groups.
The measures are said to be part of a broader effort by authorities to quash a mass hunger strike, which is well into its third week.
Bahraini detainees are protesting against inhumane conditions and intensified abuses.
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source : LuaLua TV
Tuesday
3 September 2019
3:24:29 PM
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Bahrain’s hunger striking detainees denied medication, communication privileges, freedom to worship
Hunger striking detainees in Bahraini prisons are reportedly being deprived of their medication, stripped of their communication privileges and denied their religious freedoms.