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From the torture rooms in Bahraini prisons to the intensive care unit in the Suleimaneya Medical Center (SMC); the suffering of the victim Sayyed Hussein al-Guraifi and his family continued as his only crime is that he is a cleric opposing the dictatorship of al-Khalifa dynasty.
Bahrain Center for Human Rights calls the authorities to investigate, treat and rehabilitate the victim; and punish the perpetrators in the military and security forces immediately.
Bahrain Center for Human Rights received more information and has documented exposure of many of the detainees to the systematic torture, whether in detention centers or at checkpoints.
. Such information of torture has been reported also about the wounded and injured demonstrators in the corridors of SMC since the army and security forces occupied it up until the time of writing this report.
Bahrain Center for Human Rights expressed its "deep concern on the life of the tortured victim, Sayyed Hussain al-Guraifi, a religious scholar belongs to the Shiite sect who was arbitrarily arrested on 16 March in one of the checkpoints."
"He remained under torture until his health deteriorated to be transferred from the torture room to SMC in where he was, after a short period, taken to the intensive care unit as he completely was unable to move," the report explains.
According to the witnesses who have been arrested from the same checkpoint where Sayyed Hussein was arrested, the victim was immediately severely beaten with sharp sticks and subjected to kicks with by a group of the military men in charge of that checkpoint. Also, they smashed his car completely and confiscated his identity papers, passports of his four sons and his ATM card.
Sayyed Hussein was handed to the security services that continued the investigation with him in a police station and tortured him. Thus, his health deteriorated and then he was taken to the hospital of the Ministry of the Interior to receive treatment.
Despite his health situation, the interrogation sessions took place with Sayyed accompanied with torture, so his health became critical to be transferred later to SMC.
Sayyed Hussein al- Guraifi remained in the SMC and entered the maximum care ward where his condition was very critical and was unconscious. A security guard was put at the door of the wing where the victim was in order to prevent his family from visiting him.
After 10 days, he has been moved to an unknown place and his family was unable to find him, despite their attempts to contact Suleimaneya hospital and military hospital, which denied his existence.
After about three months, his family received a call to visit him and unfortunately, his health condition was very bad where he did not even have the ability to speak. He looked thin with pale body.
Sayyed Hussein is still lying in SMC, suffering from partial paralysis due to severe beating, psychological and physical torture, the inability to speak and problems in the vocal cords.
Bahrain Center for Human Rights believes that what happened with Sayyed Hussain is an example of sufferings of hundreds of Bahrainis from bodily harms, deteriorated health due to the arrest and torture.
Also, they suffer from the absence of appropriate treatment in light of the deteriorating situation in SMC regard the control of the army and security forces as well as after the detention of medical staff, and the systematic discrimination against the Shiite community, especially in light of the targeting of hospitals.
Source: BCHR, Edited by moqawama.org
From the torture rooms in Bahraini prisons to the intensive care unit in the Suleimaneya Medical Center (SMC); the suffering of the victim Sayyed Hussein al-Guraifi and his family continued as his only crime is that he is a cleric opposing the dictatorship of al-Khalifa dynasty.
Bahrain Center for Human Rights calls the authorities to investigate, treat and rehabilitate the victim; and punish the perpetrators in the military and security forces immediately.
Bahrain Center for Human Rights received more information and has documented exposure of many of the detainees to the systematic torture, whether in detention centers or at checkpoints.
. Such information of torture has been reported also about the wounded and injured demonstrators in the corridors of SMC since the army and security forces occupied it up until the time of writing this report.
Bahrain Center for Human Rights expressed its "deep concern on the life of the tortured victim, Sayyed Hussain al-Guraifi, a religious scholar belongs to the Shiite sect who was arbitrarily arrested on 16 March in one of the checkpoints."
"He remained under torture until his health deteriorated to be transferred from the torture room to SMC in where he was, after a short period, taken to the intensive care unit as he completely was unable to move," the report explains.
According to the witnesses who have been arrested from the same checkpoint where Sayyed Hussein was arrested, the victim was immediately severely beaten with sharp sticks and subjected to kicks with by a group of the military men in charge of that checkpoint. Also, they smashed his car completely and confiscated his identity papers, passports of his four sons and his ATM card.
Sayyed Hussein was handed to the security services that continued the investigation with him in a police station and tortured him. Thus, his health deteriorated and then he was taken to the hospital of the Ministry of the Interior to receive treatment.
Despite his health situation, the interrogation sessions took place with Sayyed accompanied with torture, so his health became critical to be transferred later to SMC.
Sayyed Hussein al- Guraifi remained in the SMC and entered the maximum care ward where his condition was very critical and was unconscious. A security guard was put at the door of the wing where the victim was in order to prevent his family from visiting him.
After 10 days, he has been moved to an unknown place and his family was unable to find him, despite their attempts to contact Suleimaneya hospital and military hospital, which denied his existence.
After about three months, his family received a call to visit him and unfortunately, his health condition was very bad where he did not even have the ability to speak. He looked thin with pale body.
Sayyed Hussein is still lying in SMC, suffering from partial paralysis due to severe beating, psychological and physical torture, the inability to speak and problems in the vocal cords.
Bahrain Center for Human Rights believes that what happened with Sayyed Hussain is an example of sufferings of hundreds of Bahrainis from bodily harms, deteriorated health due to the arrest and torture.
Also, they suffer from the absence of appropriate treatment in light of the deteriorating situation in SMC regard the control of the army and security forces as well as after the detention of medical staff, and the systematic discrimination against the Shiite community, especially in light of the targeting of hospitals.
Source: BCHR, Edited by moqawama.org
