Report exclusively obtained by Al Jazeera says 23-year-old had been electrically tortured before drowning in January.

Matthew Cassel Last Modified: 16 May 2012

On most mornings Yousef Mowali would leave his home near Bahrain's international airport to go for a stroll. The 23-year-old had been diagnosed with schizophrenia a few years earlier and liked walking, both for exercising and relaxing.

On January 11, Mowali left for his morning walk and never returned.

Photo: torture marks on the body of Sayed Yaseen Shubber, 13 year old.

3 May 2012

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights condemns the authorities’ systematic acts of violence against children in Bahrain. Children’s rights have been abused and violated since the start of the revolution while violations continue to escalate on a daily basis.

Sayed Yaseen Sayed Abduljaleel Shubber, a 13 year old, was arrested by riot police in his neighborhood in Hamad Town on 27 April 2012. They released him on the condition of his appearing at the public prosecution on 29 April 2012. After his release, marks of torture were very apparent on his back and face, especially near his eyes which indicated the severity of torture and beatings that he was subjected to by riot police.

12 April 2012

Mohammed Ahmed Al Ajmai is a victim of kidnapping which occurred in February 2012 with no regards to his medical condition. He is currently held pending investigation despite his need for an urgent surgery and delaying it is putting his health at risk.

Arrest and kidnapping

On 2 February 2012, Mohammed was stopped at the custom of Bahrain-Saudi Causeway (King Faisal causeway) while he was heading to Kuwait with some friends.

He was held in the police station on the causeway, until civilian forces arrived. They took him without warrant and without identifying themselves or explaining where he was being taken.

06 April 2012

Former president of the Bahrain Teachers’ Association (BTA) Mahdi ‘Issa Mahdi Abu Dheeb has provided a detailed account in court of his torture and other ill-treatment. Amnesty International is calling for his immediate and unconditional release.

Jalila al-Salman and Mahdi ‘Issa Mahdi Abu Dheeb’s, appeal hearing resumed on 2 April 2012. They are the former vice-president and president of the BTA. Two previous hearings had taken place on 9 January and 19 February 2012. During the 2 April hearing, Mahdi Isa Mahdi Adu Dheeb told the court for the first time since his trial started how he had been tortured or otherwise ill-treated.

The general prosecution continues its role as dishonest opponent in hiding the torture and crimes carried out by the security services

1 April 2012

Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its concern on the continued cases of kidnapping and assaults on children by the security men and the secret police in Bahrain. What increases the concern is the impunity policy practiced by the Bahraini authorities to protect the human rights violators and aggressors, and helping them to escape punishment by avoiding conducting serious investigations of the incidents of abuse and with full cooperation of the public prosecution and the judiciary. Most often, the victims are children, which is a direct violation of Bahrain pledges to protect and ensure the rights of the child including the right to protection from physical assault.

The general prosecutor is still involved in hiding the torture of detainees and does not allow their families to meet them till after the disappearance of the effects of torture and the severe beating.

Bahrain Center for Human Rights: repression in Bahrain takes new forms and methods and is continuing without stopping through the use of excessive force, torture, sexual harassment and breaking parts of the demonstrators’ bodies.

Bahrain Center for Human Rights started several months ago and continued until the writing of this report documenting the repression and intimidation adopted by Bahraini security forces and which are of new forms and methods and unjustified in order to spread terror among the citizens who participate in marches and peaceful protests; where they recently proceeded to develop a new way of repression by insulting the victims during their arrest, and taking them to isolated places and torturing them [1]; with the aim of getting them injured as much as possible by breaking parts of their bodies.

28 Feb 2012

A Kuwaiti teenager arrested in Bahrain on 12 February 2012 is currently held in a police station in Bahrain and faces criminal charges. He said police beat him when he was arrested. He may be at risk of further torture or other ill-treatment.

Ali Feifel Sahad al-Ali, an 18-year-old Kuwaiti national, was arrested on 12 February outside a family friend’s house in the Shi’a village of Beni Jamra, just outside the capital, Manama. He and his family had arrived in Bahrain three days earlier to visit friends, and had intended to leave on the day he was arrested.

22 Jan 2012

The following testimony is for an employee in Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) - the host of Formula1 in Bahrain-, who was tortured behind the offices of (BIC) on 7 April 2011, before getting arrested and tortured even more at the detention centres, along with another 25 other employees. The occurrence of torture has been confirmed by multiple reports including Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry, which was appointed by the king. However, many of those involved in torturing, including the ones mentioned in this testimony are still free without accountability. Even after exposing this testimony over Twitter, the victim of torture has received threats for doing so. BCHR keeps identity of the employee private.

13 Jan 2012

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses concern over the show trial of 5 policemen allegedly implicated in the torture to death of 2 detainees in custody last April.

The trial of 5 policemen accused of “beating” that lead to death of online journalist Zakariya Rashid Hassan Al Asheri (40 years old) and Ali Isa Saqer (31 years old) started on the 11th of January 2012, 8 months after the first announcement of their referral to court[1].

06 Jan 2012
Fresh reports of the torture of an 18-year old student in detention are yet another blow to Bahrain’s promises of reform, Amnesty International said today.

Police allegedly subjected Hassan ‘Oun to torture, including beatings and threats of rape after his arrest in Manama on 3 January.