Dear Friends,
After broadcasting the pictures I sent you of Isa Saqer and a video of him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjwfKb_-HmQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player&skipcontrinter=1 , the Ministry of Interior put news on their formal website that Nabeel Rajab was to be referred to the Military Public Prosecutor for allegedly having "published in his twitter account a fabricated image of "Ali Isa Saqer" who died on 9 April 2011". We have reason to believe that he is at high risk of arrest. If Nabeel does get arrested and after the arrest of Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, Mohammed AlMasqati and Sayed Yousif AlMuhafdah (who is in hiding) will be the only human rights activists left inside Bahrain.
Apr 17
Dear Friends,
Hope this email finds you well.
Defense lawyer Mohammed AlTajer was arrested by Bahraini authorities on the 15th of April. You can read the Human Rights Watch report about it here: click here
Zainab Alkhawaja's health has deteriorated immensely and she was moved to a hospital where her family was told that if they give her IV they would have to inform the Ministry of Interior. She went home without receiving the IV. Thereabouts of her father Abdulhadi Alkhawaja and her family members are still unknown. Groups are launching a mass hunger strike starting tomorrow in Bahrain. There are also people around the world who have said that they will join the hunger strike as well.
# 30 women are being detained, 3 of them are reportedly pregnant;
# 571 men have been detained;
# An estimated 20-25% of those detained are under the age of 18 years old, with the youngest being 12 years old, Ahmed Ali Abbas Yahya Thamer;
# 40 people are listed as "missing" and not included in the numbers above;
# 17 doctors have been detained;
# Some of those detained were taken from their hospital beds where they were being treated for injuries received;
# Others were taken in the pre-dawn hours from their homes by masked and armed security forces who produced no ID's, warrants or official charges;
# Most of those detained have been without contact with their family or with legal counsel of any sort;
# At least 4 people have died during detention, and the govt claims they died from kidney failure or sickle cell disease, but families deny health conditions and clear indications of torture are present on their bodies; and
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