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"All accommodations provided for the use of prisoners and in particular all sleeping accommodations shall meet all requirements of health....and particularly to cubic content of air, minimum floor space, lighting, heating and ventilation."
These and other provisions are to insure prisoners are treated humanely. Like America, Israel and elsewhere, Bahraini authorities don't comply.
Despite generous State Department and USAID funding, even pro-Western Freedom House said the international community abandoned Bahrain, adding:
"(T)here have been no UN resolutions or sanctions on Bahrain, where protesters' calls for political reform have been met with excessive force, torture, extrajudicial killings, and the targeting of medical professionals who treat injured demonstrators."Only Saudi Arabia intervened. It sent in troops guns blazing. They continue violent crackdowns. "The United States, one of Bahrain's closest allies, has shown tepid opposition to the more egregious violations, but mostly looked the other way, even announcing a $53 million arms sale to the country."
On December 21, Reporters Without Borders called Bahrain one of the world's 10 most dangerous places for journalists. Bahraini authorities, especially photographers, were threatened, arrested, beaten, detained, and tried before military tribunals for doing their job.
"Bahrain is an example of news censorship that succeeded with the complicity of the international community, which said nothing."
Appalling human rights violations continue daily, including at Jaw prison.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at Email address removed .
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