وزير الديوان الملكي ... ووهن العنكبوت

مقال رفضت نشره الصحف المحلية بمملكة البحرين


وزير الديوان الملكي ... ووهن العنكبوت

الفساد الذي يظهر في الأرض يحيق بالناس ظلما ويتعمد اهانتهم ، والمفسدون كعادتهم لا يكتفون بالتسلط وفرض الهيمنة النابعة من حالة الذل المودعة في نفوسهم ، المفسدون في الأرض ولأنهم مهانون في داخلهم يحاولون أن يظهروا أنفسهم ككبار وأقوياء وفي الحقيقة أنهم صغار ويشعرون الحقارة في داخلهم في كل وقت ، هكذا في كل مساحة من مساحات الدولة يظهر المفسدون ليعيثوا فسادا وينشروا الرعب والخوف بين الناس .
مظاهر المفسدين والفاسدين كثيرة ويمكن لأي أحد أن يتعرف عليها بسهولة فمن يضرب النساء الثكالى ويهين كرامتهم فهو مفسدا ، والذي يصدر أوامره بملاحقة أمهات المعتقلين داخل بيوتهم فهو مفسدا ، ومن يأمر جهاز الأمن الوطني ليتجسس على حرمات البيوت فهو مفسدا ايضا ، من يتحمل مسؤولية هذه الأفعال الخسيسية والمفسدة ؟ النساء التى تعرضن للضرب بمبنى النيابة العامة وتمت اهانتهم أمام العالم من يتحمل فداحة هذا الأمر الخطير ؟ الذي يتحمل مسئولية كل ذلك هو الذي أصدر أوامره لجوقات جهاز الأمن الوطني بفعل تلك الأفعال الدنيئة .
الكرامة العربية والقيم الإسلامية ترفض وجود أشخاص مثل هؤلاء في كراسي القرار السياسي حيث يمكنهم نهب الدولة وخيراتها وزرع الفتن ونشرها بين الطوائف والناس . المفسد وكعادته ينقل الفساد والإفساد إلى من حوله ومن يخضعون له ولهيمنته الجبروتية ، ولكونه فاسدا وسارقا لا يستطيع أن يمنع السرقات والفساد بل يتستر عليها ويشفع له بالنسب والقرابة ، فعندما فكر شقيق وزير الديوان الملكي في بناء مجمع فلل في الرفاع بالقرب من المستشفى العسكري عهد بالتفاصيل إلى أبن خالته الذي برتبة مقدم في وزارة الدفاع والذي أتهمه بسرقة أموال من المشروع وعندما اكتشف خبر السرقة أحاله إلى التقاعد مع ترقيته برتبة ( عقيد ) .
الحمية القبلية والعصبية لأبناء الخالة والتغطية من جانب وزير الديوان الملكي خالد بن أحمد آل خليفه لزبانيته غير محدودة لذا تقدم لإنقاذ أبن خالته ومكأفاته على ماحدث وعرض عليه أن يكون سفيرا للبحرين في الأردن فرفض العقيد المتقاعد لأنه لا يحب الغربة كما يقول ، فما كان منه إلا أن عينه مديرا للمناطق الحرة وهو منصب حساس للغاية لا يتقلده إلا شخص ذا خبرة فكيف بعسكري أن يكون حاز عليه .
أن وزير الديوان الملكي الساعي للهيمنة والاستيلاء على كل خيرات البلاد وهو الذي يمتهن إهانة المرأة ولا يحترمها ويصر على سحق كرامتها بسبب مساندته للتيارات الأسلاميه المتشدده في البحرين ، يجب عزله وتقديمه للمحاكمة العادلة ونشر فضائحه أمام المنظمات الدولية وأمام الرأي العام ليعرف الجميع كيف تحترم حقوق الشعب وكيف تصان كرامته.
يا خالد ...
( إنما الدنيا فناء ليس للدنيا ثبوت
إنما الدنيا كبيت نسجته العنكبوت
ولقد يكفيك منها أيها الطالب قوت
ولعمري عن قليل كل من فيها يموت )

غاده جمشير
رئيسة لجنة العريضة النسائية
31-1-2008
مملكة البحرين

'Dirty tactics' against activists .

Published on Bahrain Center for Human Rights (http://www.bahrainrights.org)
Worrying Allegations over Government Attempts to Spy on Prominent Women's Rights Activist
By admin
Created 17 Mar 2007 - 22:09
BCHR calls for end to use of 'dirty tactics' against activists
Bahrain Center for Human Rights17 March 2007Ref: 07031701
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights is alarmed at allegations that the Bahraini government is employing 'dirty' tactics, including espionage, in its campaign to subdue local activists.
A Bahraini man, according to a statement given to the BCHR, was offered a large sum of money by Public Security officials in exchange for information on, and access to, the home of Women's Petition Committee head Ghada Jamsheer.
The Bahraini man from Muharraq, who previously worked in Ms Jamsheer's home to install a satellite receiver (dish), said that he was summoned to the Public Security building near the Interior Ministry Fort.
He claims that a public security official with a Jordanian accent asked him to provide them with access to Ms Jamsheer's house, and to show a public security force member the location of her bedroom.
The Bahraini man also alleged that the official indicated a small strip of transparent ribbon would be placed on Ms Jamsheer's bedroom wall.
Security officials were already in possession of a number of photographs of Ms Jamsheer and her house from the outside, according to the man.
He claims to have been offered a large amount of cash in BD 20 notes, which he refused.
According to article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, "no one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks."
As noted in the US State Department report on Human Rights Practices in Bahrain, the Bahrain "government continued toinfringe on citizens' right to privacy ... Telephone calls and personal correspondence remained subject to monitoring. Police informer networks were extensive and sophisticated."
These shocking allegations come after anonymous phone threats were made to Su'ad Fathallah after she criticized the government for its anti-women policies on a television discussion alongside Ms. Jamsheer (BCHR Ref: 07011401 [0]).
Other related incidents include the alleged kidnapping and sexual assault of National Unemployment Committee activist Musa Abda'ali by plainclothes security forces last year (see "Bahrain: Human rights defenders under threat [1]", Amnesty International, 17 July 2006), and recent anonymous phone calls threats against Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights vice president Hussein Jawad (BCHR Ref: 06101201 [1]).
In the past, the government has used personal information to blackmail or threaten activists in order to silence them or cause them to put an end to their advocacy work.
"Elsewhere, human rights workers and activists are lauded and celebrated as national figures of respect," BCHR president Abdulhadi Al Khawaja said.
"These tactics are deplorable, and unacceptable in a country which claims to be working towards democracy," he added.
"The right to privacy for all individuals is a part of the new Bahraini constitution, which should be upheld and implemented by the Bahraini government if it is to be respected by both the Bahraini people, and the International Community."
The BCHR calls for an end to dirty tactics being used by the government against activists.
With the recent escalation in the targeting of activists, the BCHR holds the Bahraini government fully responsible for the wellbeing and safety of Ms Jamsheer and her family, as well as other activists.
Source URL:http://www.bahrainrights.org/ref07031701

Minister of the Royal Court Khaled Ben Ahmed Al Khalifa and the political enmity.

Minister of the Royal Court Khaled Ben Ahmed Al Khalifa and the political enmity.

This alert was banned from publishing in local newspapers:

The person who reaches out asking for freedom is neither a beggar nor a demanding. He is indeed seeking one of his human rights stolen from him by the greediness of humankind. If he attains it, he shall not owe gratitude or gratefulness to anyone.
In our society (the Kingdom of Bahrain) two real men identical in names and affiliation, but different in consciousness and humanitarian feelings, the first is the Minister of the Royal Court Khaled Ben Ahmed Al Khalifa and the second the Minister of Foreign Affairs Khaled Ben Ahmed Al Khalifa.
Respect, colleagueship, and good memories tied me to the Minister of Foreign Affairs during my college studies in the United States of America, in the state of Texas. He is a particularly likeable man loved by everybody. We hoped from his highness the minister to continue on the right path preserving his independent good nature; and not to get corrupted in ways of deceptiveness. We also wished that his modern progressive ideas not be bashed by the grains of evil resulting from following the imposed ideas by the minister of the Royal Court Khaled Ben Ahmed Al Khalifa, whose ideas are harmful for the mind and a deformation of feelings.
The interview on Friday, 16th November 2007 with the minister of Foreign Affairs on the Bahrain Television, in which he said that he “defies those who pretend that in Bahrain some people go to their bed at night without dignity knowing they are persecuted” and he added: “many human rights activists are in Bahrain and they don’t feel threatened”. He also spoke about the decency of the judicial board and the case of political refugees.
Dear college colleague: you said this speech while knowing that it is unrepresentative; it doesn’t reflect your thoughts but it is the echoing of the words of the Royal Court Minister which deforms the truth and veil the reality.
The minister of the Royal Court made an iron barrier between him and the respectable people, between the activists and the press.
He manipulate all forms of press, national and international, of those he was able to buy, as example preventing me from appearing in the press; by that, he was trying to bind my work in the humanitarian field, and in the human rights and freedom activism. This minister wishes to see the people kneeling at his feet and begging him. He doesn’t want reform in this society but he wants to humiliate the citizens of this country.
He stationed members of the national security forces which he supervises personally (the secret services) in front of the houses of the activists amongst them my own house in order to spy on us. Does in it count as a violation of the privacy and the sanctity of homes?
This is an illustration of the excesses of his individualistic lunatic personality which plots conspiracies. It is his way of dealing with the opposition and the political enmity. He follows the motto divide and rule; therefore he separates between the followers of the two respectful confessions (the Sunni and the Shiite) and moreover he follows this within the same confession, between the sons of the Arab tribes and the Arab Halwas, he also separates between the classes within the ruling family.
It is hard for me dear college colleague to see you following the footsteps of a ghost on the road with an unknown destination.
In conclusion, going back to the National Labor Convention and its positive principles and articles, let’s collaborate and unite to apply the elements which help and benefit the country. And there is a follow up to this conversation…


30-12-2007

Ghada Yusef Jamsheer
Head of the Women's Petition Committee
Tel: 0097339680807
Email: Ghadajamsheer@hotmail.com

Testimony of Ghada Jamsheer given to the Protection of Human Rights Defenders , held in Ireland.

Closing proceedings of the Conference on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, held in Ireland

Testimony of Ghada Jamsheer given to the Conference

The famous Dublin Castle in Ireland was the scene for the proceedings of the final day of the 4th conference for the Protection of Human Rights Defender, attended by the Irish Foreign Minister, the Minister of Overseas Affairs, Development and Human Rights, the United Nations Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders, the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders of the African Commission for Human and Peoples’ Rights, the European Council, the Continental American Committee on Human Rights and its Special Representative for Human Rights Affairs sent by the High Representative for Joint Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union, the Executive Director of the Supreme Council for Human Rights Policies, members of the Board of the Frontline organization and members of international organisations concerned with the protection of human rights defenders in addition to more than 100 human rights defenders from all over the world who have been put in danger for exposing the truth about the oppression faced by human rights defenders and to support their activities international.

On the final day of the conference Ghada Jamsheer described her experience as a human rights defender and specifically a defender of women’s rights. This is the complete text of her testimony.

Attack on a human rights defender in Bahrain

Testimony of Ghada Jamsheer director of the Women’s Petition Committee during the 4th Dublin Meeting of Human Rights Defenders, Ireland 22nd – 24th November 2007

My name is Ghada Jamsheer, a Bahraini national born in the city of el-Moharreq. I am a businesswoman and have a daughter aged nine years old.

My work in human rights – and specifically women’s rights – began in the corridors of the Bahraini Shari’a courts, which resound corruption, both ethical and professional. What spurred me on was the severe suffering I had come into contact with, suffering which had driven some women into psychiatric hospitals and others into moral deviation caused by religious, paternalistic and social persecution.

The Shari’a courts are merciless in depriving mothers of custody of their children or forcing them to live in extremely difficult conditions at the mercy of their husband – and all in the name of Islam as embodied in the Shari’a court. It is this which pushed me, together with a group of women harmed by Shari’a judgements, to form a women’s organisation called the Women’s Petition Committee whose task is to defend those harmed by Shari’a judgements.

This Committee played a leading and effective role between 2000 and 2007 through sit-ins and protests inside courts (the Shari’a Judicial fortress) The Committee also made use of the press to put forward its aims for reform of the Shari’a judiciary and promulgation of a personal status law. This led to the removal of seven members of the Shari’a judiciary from the Soneyya and Jafareyya circuits. It is also prompted the government to respond to calls that the personal status law issue be examined.

After the Shari’a judges were dismissed as a result of the pressure generated by the Committee both in the media and amongst the public, some judges persisted in targeting me in my capacity as director of the Women’s Petition Committee. A group of judges raised numerous, arbitrary criminal cases against me on the pretext that I had infringed the Shari’a judiciary. The total prison sentence for these charges was fifteen years.

The Committee responded by increasing its activity and contacted the United Nations and international organisations. I visited Great Britain and Geneva accompanied by a group of affected women. As a result of local activity and the support of international organisations I was found innocent in the criminal courts in all the cases against me.

In 2005 I published a book, The Executioner and the Victim in Shari’a Courts which documented the Committee’s activity and cases in which women had been harmed by Shari’a verdicts.

In 2006 the Ministry of Social Development applied pressure in an attempt to stop the Committee’s activity because it was not registered under the Non-Governmental Organisations law. The Ministry threatened Committee directors with legal measures. Powers under the Non-Governmental Organisations law are used to restrict and control NGO activity; the Ministry may refuse or hamper an application for application. The law gives the Ministry unrestricted powers to control and interfere in the formation and dissolution of the NGO’s board and of the NGO itself. Article 18 of the law bans from a registered NGO anyone with activity or opinions of a political nature, and restricts the NGO’s ability to have foreign contacts and receive financial funding.

In 2006, after I participated with other national Bahraini activities in the British House of Lords, and following my criticism of the Bahraini authorities’ policies with regard to democracy and the political, economic and social rights of women, I received a direct threat from the Minister of the Royal Treasury demanding that I abandon my public work. I was then placed under direct surveillance, intelligence services vehicles taking up positions near my house. My telephone was also continually monitored. Servants of the regime were sent to offer me bribes while at the same time threatening that I would be defamed. And this is what happened; intelligence services tried to plant a device which would transmit pictures of what happens in my bedroom, in an attempt to obtain photographs which could be used to silence me. This occurred through a specialist who was sent to install a satellite dish.

The intelligence services tried to increase pressure by harassing members of my family, some of whom occupy important positions in the state and in society, in order to turn them against me – again with the aim of stopping my activity and silencing my voice. The Minister of the Royal Treasury Khaled Ahmed Al-Khalifa forbid the Bahraini press and all members of the media from publishing the Committee’s press statements or reporting on its or my activities. This forced me to use the Internet and make use of public forum sites. The intelligence services resorted to closing down these forums and tried to tarnish my reputation in an attempt to cut me off socially by putting around the idea that I am against the religious beliefs and schools of the groups which women, the victims of marginalisation and poverty and harmed by the Shari’a courts, belong to.

These threats and this harassment will never dissuade me from pursuing my work. I am proud of the international support which I have been lucky enough to receive previously from a number of Arab and international organisations, and was also proud to be chosen by Time magazine as one of four freedom heroes in the Arab region in 2006, and by the Forbes report as one of the ten most influential women in the Arab region in the same year. I cherish my involvement - alongside former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and Iranian activist Shereen Ebadi - in the formation of the Muslim Women’s Forum for Human Rights and Democracy, which held its first conference in Oslo, Norway in May 2007. All this has given me the impetus to hold out and continue the struggle despite the difficulties.

To close, through this important international meeting I address my thanks to Frontline organization and other international organisations for their efforts in protecting human rights defenders. I have come here to present my case and the case of my people because this will perhaps break the barrier of silence surrounding the tyranny and abuse – and in particular of women – of all civil, political, economic and social rights which takes place in Arab countries. It is lamentable that oil revenues and the strategic interests of Western governments in the region lead to support for the totalitarian regimes and lead to their being presented as democratic and civil; this is done at the expense of the truth, and at the expense of people’s dignity, freedoms and rights.


Ghada Jamsheer
Head of the Women's Petition Committee
Tel: 0097339680807
Email: Ghadajamsheer@hotmail.com
http://bahrain-eve.blogspot.com/Hawaa Bahrain Blog

Ghada Jamsheer turns down the membership of the Human Rights Commission for its unclear objectives and standards .

Ghada Jamsheer turns down the membership of the Human Rights Commission for its unclear objectives and standards

Women's rights activists, Ghada Jamsheer, has apologized for not accepting to join the Human Rights Commission, which is a new body in the formulation process by a decision issued last month by the Cabinets. Mrs. Jamsheer reasons for refusing to join the newly founded association was that there are no guarantees that this body will abide by international human rights norms, such as Paris Principles. Also there are worries concerning the nature of this new body, including the structure, membership, agenda and objectives. There are also suspicions in the ability of the government to tackle human rights issues seriously, such as poverty, sectarian discrimination, discrimination against women and public freedoms.

Dr Yasser Al Nasser, Secretary General of the Cabinets, has contacted Mrs. Jamsheer last month to convoy her an invitation to join the Commission, and requested her to respond in the earliest convenience. Mrs. Jamsheer contacted Dr. Al Nasser later to thank him for this invitation, but in the same time she apologized for turning down this invitation for the aforementioned reasons. Mrs. Jamsheer also advised Dr. Nasser to make sure that the Commission abides by international human rights norms, especially Paris Principles and other human rights treaties, and she also requested him to consult with NGO's and civil society organizations that enjoy public and international respect, and to avoid suspicious organizations and persons, especially those whose involved in the controversial report issued by Dr Salah Al Bandar. Mrs. Jamsheer also noted the worries that this newly established body could be a façade association aiming to improve the damaged image of Bahrain abroad while neglecting crucial issues related to human rights.

غاده جمشير تعتذر عن الانضمام لهيئة حقوق الانسان لعدم وضوح أهدافها والمعايير التى تعمل عليها بمملكة البحرين .

غادة جمشير تعتذر عن الانضمام لهيئة حقوق الإنسان لعدم وضوح أهدافها والمعايير التي تعمل عليها
اعتذرت الناشطة النسائية السيدة غادة جمشير عن الانضمام لهيئة حقوق الإنسان التي أعلن عن النية بتشكيلها بقرار من مجلس الوزراء الشهر الماضي. وعللت السيدة جمشير عدم مشاركتها في الهيئة لعدم ضمان توافق تلك الهيئة مع المعايير الدولية لحقوق الإنسان كمبادئ باريس . وكذلك حول الشكوك في طبيعة تشكيلها من حيث التركيبة والأعضاء والأجندة المعلنة وعدم وضوح أهدافها، والشكوك في مدى جدية الحكومة في معالجة قضايا حقوق الإنسان كقضايا الفقر والتمييز الطائفي والتمييز ضد المرأة والحريات العامة.
وكان الدكتور ياسر الناصر الأمين العام لمجلس الوزراء قد قام بالاتصال بالسيدة جمشير الشهر الماضي ناقلا دعوة لها للانضمام للهيئة، وطالبا منها الرد على الدعوة في أسرع وقت ممكن. وفي اتصال أخر ،شكرت السيدة جمشير السيد الناصر الأمين العام لمجلس الوزراء على الدعوة، لكنها اعتذرت عن تلبيتها للأسباب المذكورة أعلاه .
ونصحت السيدة جمشير الدكتور الناصر بالتقيد بالمعايير والمواثيق الدولية المعنية في إنشاء هده الهيئة، وخصوصا ما نصت عليه مبادئ باريس ومواثيق حقوق الإنسان، وطالبته أيضا وبالتشاور مع مؤسسات المجتمع المدني ذات المصداقية الشعبية والدولية، في مجال حقوق الإنسان والابتعاد عن المؤسسات أو الشخصيات المشبوهة وسيئة السمعة، أو المتورطة في مؤامرة التقرير المثير للجدل والدي اصدره الدكتور صلاح البندر المستشار السابق لرئاسة مجلس الوزراء. وحذرت كذلك السيدة جمشير من أن يكون هدا الإجراء شكليا المراد منه تحسين صورة البحرين في الخارج على حساب معالجة المواضيع والملفات الماسة والانتهاكات الواضحة لحقوق الإنسان.

Women's Petition Committee condemns the attack on Women at the General Prosecutor's

Special Security Forces and National Security suppress Peaceful Demonstrations

Women's Petition Committee Condemns the attack on women at the General Prosecutor's

1 January 2008

Women's Petition Committee in Bahrain expresses its deep discontent concerning the attacks, insults mistreatment suffered by the families, including wives and children, of the political prisoners by the hands of the Special Security Forces and the Women's Police at the General Prosecutor's premises. These incidents took place while they were demonstrating on 25 December 2007, demanding their right to visit their detained relatives. This demonstration came as a reaction to the refusal of the Prosecutor's Office to comply with the promise they made to allow visits to the detainees. Accordingly, the families of the detainees insisted to set an appointment for the visit, however, the Prosecutor's Office insisted on ignoring their demands.

The families of the victims didn’t leave the Prosecutor's building until the closing hours of the facility, which required the Security Forces to directly order the demonstrators to leave the building. The demonstrating women held still their position, as they didn’t receive any information concerning the detained relatives. The Women's Police were allowed in to deal with the demonstrators, using violence to dismantle the assembly in a very humiliating manner. The Police were able to dismiss some of the demonstrators, while the rest didn’t leave insisting on their demands which are considered their basic rights. One of the demonstrating women saw her mother fainting inside the building, so she asked the officer/ Usama Elmahry to let her in, however her request wasn’t answered until she had to kiss the officer's foot !!

Another female activist, Zainab Abdulhadi El Khawaja, and Rabab Marhoon, reporter of Afaque Website, were both subjected to physical assaults by the hands of the Women's Police. Director of Bahraini Center for Human Rights, Abdulhadi el Khawaja, was also subjected to beating while he was monitoring the incidents from outside the facility. Reporter were banned from taking photos, and they were also subjected to searching and harassments. Some of the demonstrated women were taken to hospital due to their deteriorating health conditions resulting from beating and mistreatment.

Note: see attached links to video clips showing the incident at the end of this report.

Names of women subjected to assaults:

Sadika Haron (19 years old), transferred to hospital.
Afrah Haron (23 years old), transferred to hospital (pregnant in her first month)
Mariam Gasem (50 years old), fainted and taken to hospital.
Amina Shokr, transferred to hospital.
Sharifa Sayyid Gaafar (50 years old), transferred to hospital.
Fakhria Singace, (in her thirties)
Somayyia Singace (12 years old) suffered from nervous breakdown
Zainab el Kaffas (thirties)
Haifa Mohamed Taha (twenties)
Sanaa Mohamed Taha (twenties)
Zahra Khalil ( 14 years old)
Fatimah Salman Gassem (twenties)
Afaf Abdulhadi (twenties)
Rabab Marhoon (23 years old), reporter of Afaque News
The mother of the detainee Abdullah Mohsen
Zainab Al Khawaja (24 years old), human rights activist

More violations were monitored during the attack of the Special Security Forces on the detainees houses to arrest them, on the other side many women suffered from insults, beating and violent treatment by the hands of "armed militias" dressed in civil clothing took part in suppressing the demonstration and houses intrusions.

Its worth mentioning that these militias are Bahraini nationals with Iraqi origins, and they fall under the orders of the National Security of the Minister of the Royal Divan, Khaled Ben Ahmed Al Khalifa. These militias were brought from Jordan and Iraq as a part of the plan called "Secret Organization", which was revealed by the Ex-Council Dr Salah al Bandar, which aims to alter the demographic structure of Bahrain in favor the Sunnis over the Shi'a in order to suppress opposition. According to received information, these militias are part of what is called "Fadai'e Saddam" that worked under the son of Saddam Hussein the Ex-President of Iraq. Its worth mentioning that Udai, Saddam's son, used these militias to terrorize citizens and to rape women.

This wave of arrests came as a reaction to the incidents that followed the death of Ali Gassem during the demonstration "Victims of torture" that took place on 17 December. Its worth mentioning that the charges faced by the detainees, such are participating in illegal gatherings or acts of disorder are the same charges faced by the political activists in the 1990's when they were demanding a democratic life. These charges are used to restrict their political activism and their struggle for spreading human rights principles, enacting the fundamental principles of democracy to reach to the ideal state of law.

Bahrain witnessed many arrests of human rights activists, especially after the incidents took place after the death incident previously mentioned, and also due to accumulations and general depression among the commons. In the time we see the Bahraini women are subjected to human rights violations, the Supreme Council for Women in Bahrain is not taking any actions to protect them from these violations, and always plays the role of the spectator, taking a non-neutral position because it falls under the auspice of the Royal Divan and is abide by the orders of the Minister of the Royal Divan.

Accordingly, the Women's Petition Committee demands the following:

1- the resignation of the Prosecutor General, Ali Fadel Albuainain, as a respond to these irresponsible assaults that took place inside the Prosecutor's premises. Albuainain used to be an officer at the Attorney General' Office in the Ministry of Interiors, then he was appointed as the vice president of the Security Committee formulated after the 1990's riots. He was nominated to be the Prosecutor General by the Minister Khalid Ben Ahmed as a reward to his actions during the riots. Albuainain is also the bother of the first parliament member Ghanem Albuainain, who is the president of Asala Islamic Association which is loyal to the ruling regime.
2- Allowing the detainees families to visit their relatives, in accordance with human rights norms.
3- Enabling freedom of expression and peaceful assembly without suppression.
4- Refraining from any assaults on activists in human rights and media.
5- Reopening the investigations in the death incident of Ali Gassem.
6- Refraining from attacking houses during night without warranties and terrorizing peaceful citizens.
7- Dismanteling the Supreme Council for Women because of its passive role.


Links to video clips of the assaults on women:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBgoYkNt2y8


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAUdvRonnpE



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GXq6lOumAQ


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4MwUusB3UY



http://www.aafaq.org/search_details.aspx?id_arch=9846&id=الأخبار%20الرئيسية


For more information please contact:

Ghada Jamsheer
Head of the Women's Petition Committee
Tel: 0097339680807
Email: Ghadajamsheer@hotmail.com