Bahrain - Joint appeal to the UN against ill-treatment and torture of detained human rights defenders, activists and photojournalist in Bahrain

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Read in Arabic (بالعربية) The following is a joint appeal to three UN Special Rapporteurs calling for an investigation to torture in Bahraini prisons. The appeal, signed by over 50 NGOs, was initiated by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights and the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights : 22 May 2013 Dear Special Rapporteurs Mendez, Sekaggya and La Rue, We the undersigned NGOs worldwide are writing to express serious concern over the treatment of Bahrain human rights defenders whom we believe to be (...)

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