By: Kayhan Int’l
The worsening situation of human rights in Bahrain is evident by the repressive minority regime’s scant regard for sentiments of the Persian Gulf island state’s long suppressed majority.
Last Monday there were demonstrations in the capital Manama and other towns and cities with protestors demanding the release from illegal detention of the popular religious leader Sheikh Ali Salman.
The 53-year old Head of the now dissolved al-Wefaq party has started his seventh year in prison, and according to a message from him he has no regrets for having completed six unjustified years behind bars for obeying the commandments of God Almighty and helping his oppressed compatriots.
The ruling clique, under Britain’s protection since 1820, shortly after the Aal-e Khalifa pirates had seized Bahrain from a weakened Qajarid Iran, is among the notorious violators of human rights.
Its crimes against humanity are shamelessly backed by the US which in affront to the Bahrain people has set up headquarters of its intruding 5th Fleet in Manama.
Since the brutal crushing of the peaceful 2011 uprising by the minority regime with the assistance of the savage soldiers of Saudi Arabia who desecrated mosques and tore up copies of the holy Qur’an, in addition to trampling religious symbols, the oppressed people of Bahrain have known no peace.
Most of their leaders are either languishing in dungeons or are exiled, while the Aal-e Khalifas are trying in vain to alter the demography of Bahrain by revoking the citizenship of many of the indigenous people and giving nationality to settlers and mercenaries from abroad.
Unfortunately, rarely does the UN criticize the repressive regime for the violation of human rights, because of the subservience of the World Body to the US and Britain.
It is a regime which is at war with its own people while masquerading as promoter of peace by openly establishing diplomatic ties with the racist terrorist Zionist regime.
The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), which is made up exiles living in London and other European capitals, has deplored the continued detention of Sheikh Ali Salman as travesty of justice.
It pointed out that torture is widespread in the dungeons of Bahrain, prisoners are held without trial with minimum facilities, and even executed under detention in order to spread awe and terror amongst the people.
The trial and imprisonment of the Leader of the opposition in the now dissolved Bahraini parliament, started with a 4-year prison term in June 2015 by a kangaroo court on the vague charges of insulting the Interior Ministry and inciting others to break the law.
In May 2016, however, the so-called Supreme Court increased the jailed Sheikh Salman’s prison sentence from four to nine years.
Later on, in a bizarre turn of events, he was given a life sentence in prison on 4 November 2018.
The regime thinks that through such tyrannical measures it would succeed in crushing the democratic aspirations of the people of Bahrain, who are also shunned by the self-styled advocates of human rights in the West, because of fears that an independent Bahrain will ask the Americans and the British to close down their military bases, while becoming a firm supporter of the Palestinian people.
There are also fears in Washington and London that the success of the people’s movement in Bahrain will spill into mainland Arabia and mobilize the people of the oil-rich eastern region of British-created Saudi Arabia.
This will mean an end to the Anglo-American domination of the oil fields of Arabia and emergence on the regional political scene of another bastion of the growing Resistance Front against Israel.
Such measures are all in vain, and sooner than later Bahrain, like Iraq, will become a full-fledged independent state.
Last Monday there were demonstrations in the capital Manama and other towns and cities with protestors demanding the release from illegal detention of the popular religious leader Sheikh Ali Salman.
The 53-year old Head of the now dissolved al-Wefaq party has started his seventh year in prison, and according to a message from him he has no regrets for having completed six unjustified years behind bars for obeying the commandments of God Almighty and helping his oppressed compatriots.
The ruling clique, under Britain’s protection since 1820, shortly after the Aal-e Khalifa pirates had seized Bahrain from a weakened Qajarid Iran, is among the notorious violators of human rights.
Its crimes against humanity are shamelessly backed by the US which in affront to the Bahrain people has set up headquarters of its intruding 5th Fleet in Manama.
Since the brutal crushing of the peaceful 2011 uprising by the minority regime with the assistance of the savage soldiers of Saudi Arabia who desecrated mosques and tore up copies of the holy Qur’an, in addition to trampling religious symbols, the oppressed people of Bahrain have known no peace.
Most of their leaders are either languishing in dungeons or are exiled, while the Aal-e Khalifas are trying in vain to alter the demography of Bahrain by revoking the citizenship of many of the indigenous people and giving nationality to settlers and mercenaries from abroad.
Unfortunately, rarely does the UN criticize the repressive regime for the violation of human rights, because of the subservience of the World Body to the US and Britain.
It is a regime which is at war with its own people while masquerading as promoter of peace by openly establishing diplomatic ties with the racist terrorist Zionist regime.
The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), which is made up exiles living in London and other European capitals, has deplored the continued detention of Sheikh Ali Salman as travesty of justice.
It pointed out that torture is widespread in the dungeons of Bahrain, prisoners are held without trial with minimum facilities, and even executed under detention in order to spread awe and terror amongst the people.
The trial and imprisonment of the Leader of the opposition in the now dissolved Bahraini parliament, started with a 4-year prison term in June 2015 by a kangaroo court on the vague charges of insulting the Interior Ministry and inciting others to break the law.
In May 2016, however, the so-called Supreme Court increased the jailed Sheikh Salman’s prison sentence from four to nine years.
Later on, in a bizarre turn of events, he was given a life sentence in prison on 4 November 2018.
The regime thinks that through such tyrannical measures it would succeed in crushing the democratic aspirations of the people of Bahrain, who are also shunned by the self-styled advocates of human rights in the West, because of fears that an independent Bahrain will ask the Americans and the British to close down their military bases, while becoming a firm supporter of the Palestinian people.
There are also fears in Washington and London that the success of the people’s movement in Bahrain will spill into mainland Arabia and mobilize the people of the oil-rich eastern region of British-created Saudi Arabia.
This will mean an end to the Anglo-American domination of the oil fields of Arabia and emergence on the regional political scene of another bastion of the growing Resistance Front against Israel.
Such measures are all in vain, and sooner than later Bahrain, like Iraq, will become a full-fledged independent state.
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