BYSHR: The Specter of the Emergency Law Back Again in Bahrain
 

11-02-12 01:20 AM

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February 9th, 2012
In 2011, after the authorities cracked down on protests in the Pearl Roundabout, King of Bahrain announced the National Safety Law (Emergency Law), and Bahrain has gone through serious violations of human rights.
Weeks before the first anniversary of the protests, the specter of the National Safety Law – Emergency Law – back again:
1) According to information the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR), authorities arrested more than 100 people since last January, during the arrest, the security forces, and forces in civilian clothes – masked men – stormed the house and did not show the permission of the Attorney General.The BYSHR documented allegations of torture.
2) A number of prominent journalists have reported on Twitter that they have been denied access to Bahrain in the run-up to the anniversary of the pro-democracy protests on February 14.Nick Kristof and Adam Ellick of the New York Times, Gregg Carlstrom of Al Jazeera, Cara Swift of the BBC and Kristen Chick of the Christian Science Monitor are among those who have been denied entry to Bahrain.
3) A number of prominent international human rights monitors, including Human Rights First’s Brian Dooley, Physicians for Human Rights’s Richard Sollom and Freedom House, were denied entry to Bahrain.
4)The Ministry of Interior returned checkpoints in some areas.
5) The riot police using the shotgun again in the suppression of protests in some areas.
6) The Health Ministry issued a memorandum to the private hospitals require them to inform the security authorities of the injured and wounded, and will be taking legal action against the offending hospital.
7) The Army used barbed wire to close the areas near the Pearl Roundabout.
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