Bahrain Among 22 States Where Forced Disappearances Are Widely Spread
2015-08-31 - 10:54 p
Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) said that Bahrain is among the countries where short-term forced disappearances are widely spread, adding that the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances has ranked Bahrain among 22 states that exercise this serious violation.
On the occasion of International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, August 30, BFHR explained that the Bahraini government did not ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, stressing that the reasons that the authorities allege are irrelevant, for forcibly making citizens disappear is considered a crime according to the law.
For his part, the president of BFHR, Yusuf Rabie, said: "No time limits, no matter how short can justify the cases of forced disappearances," calling on the Bahraini authorities "to provide the families and lawyers of the 24 citizens, who were arrested over the suspicious Karana Blast, with detailed data and grant them all legal guarantees stipulated by the articles of the Bahraini Constitution."
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