By NOOR TOORANI, Posted on » Wednesday, August 26, 2009

BAHRAINI activists have set themselves a deadline of two months to secure the release of 27 men accused of murdering two Pakistanis, including one policeman.

A coalition of community groups, human rights groups and political organisations has been formed to lobby the government into acquitting them.

Members of the coalition claim there is a lack of evidence pinning the suspects to the crimes.

Nineteen Bahrainis are standing trial at the High Criminal Court for the premeditated murder of Pakist-ani policeman Majid Asghar Ali Baksh when his patrol car was ambushed by Molotov cocktails in Karzakan in April last year.

The men, who denied the charges, are also accused of attemp-ting to murder two other policemen who were with the 24-year-old victim and of rioting.

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BAHRAIN: Human Rights Defenders Subjected to Job Dismissal and Income Cut-off

Activist Mohammed Al Sankees Dismissed from his Work Because of his Rights Activism

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3rd August 2009

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) and the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR) express their deep concern about the escalation in targeting human rights defenders and opposition activists in Bahrain. The Bahraini Authorities, and without prior notice, have recently taken a measure to terminate the services of human rights activist Mohammed Abdullah Alsankees of his work at the Ministry of Works after more than 22 years of employment in the same ministry.

Mohammed Alsankees, in his forties, is the founder and chairman of the Committee Against Inflation (High Prices), which was founded in 2006. He had a distinct role in the management of his Committee and in shedding light on its theme subject. He was also an active member of the committees for the defense of activists, political prisoners and detainees of conscience, and distinguishably contributed in social work when chaired the Social Center at Maqaba village for a period of time. Alsankees participated in joint activities with the Committee of Unemployed, until just before his arrest last December 21st, 2007 in a campaign waged against activists of popular committees and human rights defenders.

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The Government Responds to the United Nations Letters on Torture

The National Security Apparatuses still practices torture against Detainees in Security Issues

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1 August 2009

The Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights expresses its deep concern regarding the information received from the families of detainees in the case of burning the Pakistani immigrant Sheikh Mohammed Riyadh, where the Public Prosecution’s statements indicated that in March 2009 a group of youth from Ma’ameer village encountered a car – Pick Up type – which was driven by the deceased in Ma’ameer area, where a group of masked men encountered him and started throwing Molotov cocktails, the car was damaged and this led to him getting burnt and dieing after a while of being transferred to the government hospital. The Public Prosecution accused ten people from Ma’ameer village with (premeditated murder, burning private property and exposing people to danger, and possession of explosive devices).

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