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Female poet Ayat Alqurmozi was shown on social media web sites without her veil. She was arrested. Her photo albums and other personal possessions were confiscated.
In 2008, state security agents conducted a warrantless search of human rights activist Ghada Jamsheer's home. She was away at an Association for Women's Rights Development conference. Photographs and other possessions were confiscated.
She's been repeatedly harassed and abused. She was accused of attacking officers performing their duties. She's denied access to Bahrain's media. Charges against her are spurious.
She's president of the Women's Petition Committee. It campaigns for women's rights in sharia courts.
Other human rights supporters and activists feel insecure. Their activities are monitored. They're threatened and terrorized. Arrests can happen any time. No one's safe in Bahrain today. State terror is policy. Washington supports it.
Al-Tajer was attacked after other Bahrain UPR Human Rights Council delegates were targeted in pro-government media. They were intimidated. They were called traitors, Iranian agents, disloyal, and other pejoratives.
UN Human Rights Council president Laura Dupuy Lasserre called on Bahrain authorities "not to make reprisals against opposition activitists attending" UPR meetings. They continued anyway.
BCHR, the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR), Bahrain Rehabilitation Against Violence Organization (BRAVO), and Bahrain Human Rights Society (BHRS) want those responsible for state crimes against humanity held accountable.
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