Bahrain’s Chambers of Death and Henderson’s Pervasive Culture of Torture
Sondoss Al Asaad- An archipelago of 33 islands, Bahrain has cast off a well-deserved reputation as a state that routinely tortured political dissents.
An archipelago of 33 islands, #Bahrain has cast off a well-deserved reputation as a state that routinely tortured political dissents.
Since 2011, as political repression rose in Bahrain, security officials appear to have utilized a specific repertoire of torture techniques against many of those arbitrarily detained, designed to inflict pain and elicit made-up confessions, including the use of electro-shock devices; prolonged suspension in painful positions; beating the soles of the feet, the head, torso, and limbs; threats of murder and/or rape; and other forms that amount to torture illegal treatment in a good number of documented instances at the headquarters of the Ministry of Interior’s General Directorate of Criminal Investigation (CID); at the Ministry of Interior’s Short-Term Detention Unit (aka Dry Dock); at Jau Central Prison and other detention centers.
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