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Bahrain’s systematic practices of detaining and abusing children to quell dissents violate international law, according to a report published by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) on Monday.
Despite a 2024 royal pardon releasing over 1,500 prisoners including 40 minors, the groups recorded an escalating number of politically motivated charges targeting children starting from April 2024, along with documented cases of torture, coerced confessions and denied due process. In December 2024 and January 2025, several detained minors initiated hunger strikes, demanding their release or an expedited trial.
One of the cases involved a 15-year-old named Abdul Aziz Husain Jaafar AlHammadi, who was arrested in October 2024 without any warrant. After arrest, he was beaten during interrogation and denied any medical care for a jaw condition. As he has been detained for six months without any trial, ADHRB challenged that the authorities have violated his procedural right under Bahrain’s Restorative Justice Law for Children, which limits pre-trial detention to 30 days.
In addition, HRW interviewed eight men who were detained as children between 2013 and 2019. The interviews revealed the practice of stripping, threatening with rape and coerced confessions. One of the former detainees, arrested at 15, stated that “during the interrogation, [the authorities] were hitting me, and took my clothes off, and threaten[ed] me with rape … [one officer] used to come and hold my testicles and tell me to speak and to confess.”
Bahrain’s 2021 Restorative Justice Law sets the minimum criminal age at 15. However, it permits the authorities to institutionalize children for “endangerment,” a provision that has been criticized for enabling arbitrary detention. ADHRB Executive Director Husain Abdulla condemned the policy, stating:
Since the series of anti-government protests in the 2011 Bahrain uprising, the government has been repressing opposition activism by legislative restrictions and imprisonment. Relatedly on February 14, 31 human rights organizations urged the EU to secure the release of two European activists who are currently facing arbitrary detentions and torture in Bahrain.
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Despite a 2024 royal pardon releasing over 1,500 prisoners including 40 minors, the groups recorded an escalating number of politically motivated charges targeting children starting from April 2024, along with documented cases of torture, coerced confessions and denied due process. In December 2024 and January 2025, several detained minors initiated hunger strikes, demanding their release or an expedited trial.
One of the cases involved a 15-year-old named Abdul Aziz Husain Jaafar AlHammadi, who was arrested in October 2024 without any warrant. After arrest, he was beaten during interrogation and denied any medical care for a jaw condition. As he has been detained for six months without any trial, ADHRB challenged that the authorities have violated his procedural right under Bahrain’s Restorative Justice Law for Children, which limits pre-trial detention to 30 days.
In addition, HRW interviewed eight men who were detained as children between 2013 and 2019. The interviews revealed the practice of stripping, threatening with rape and coerced confessions. One of the former detainees, arrested at 15, stated that “during the interrogation, [the authorities] were hitting me, and took my clothes off, and threaten[ed] me with rape … [one officer] used to come and hold my testicles and tell me to speak and to confess.”
Bahrain’s 2021 Restorative Justice Law sets the minimum criminal age at 15. However, it permits the authorities to institutionalize children for “endangerment,” a provision that has been criticized for enabling arbitrary detention. ADHRB Executive Director Husain Abdulla condemned the policy, stating:
Article 37 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Bahrain ratified in 1992, prohibits arbitrary detention and torture of minors. In addition, Article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights also provides for the right to a trial within a reasonable time.
Since the series of anti-government protests in the 2011 Bahrain uprising, the government has been repressing opposition activism by legislative restrictions and imprisonment. Relatedly on February 14, 31 human rights organizations urged the EU to secure the release of two European activists who are currently facing arbitrary detentions and torture in Bahrain.
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