Bahrain: Further information on fear of torture / medical concern / faer of medical neglect / ill-treatment

Index Number: MDE 11/005/1999
Date Published: 28 February 1999
Categories: Bahrain, Middle East And North Africa

Shaikh 'Abd al-'Amir Mansur al-Jamri has finally been put on trial, three years after his arrest. It is not known when Shaikh Hassan Sultan, Shaikh 'Ali Ashour, Shaikh 'Ali bin Ahmad al-Jeddhafsi, Shaikh Hussein Al-Deihi, Hassan Meshema'a, Sayyed Ibrahim Adnan al-Alawi and Abdul Wahab Hussein will be put on trial. AI considers all of the men to be prisoners of conscience.