Bahrain
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Urgent Interventions

Bahrain: 3 women, previously tortured, released

Case BHR 180500.1
Follow-up to Case BHR 180500

Geneva, 10th October 2000

The International Secretariat of OMCT requests your URGENT intervention in the following situation in Bahrain.

New Information

The International Secretariat of OMCT has been informed by the Bahrain Human Rights Organisation (BHRO), a member of the OMCT network, that Leeda Ahmed Isa Al-Oreibi, 27, Hanan Salman Ahmed Haider, 21 and Salwa Hasan Ahmed Haider, 35, who were sentenced to one year imprisonment on May 13th 2000, were released on 25th September 2000.

The International Secretariat would like to thank all those institutions, organisations and individuals who intervened on their behalf.

Brief reminder of the situation

The International Secretariat of OMCT was gravely concerned for the physical and psychological integrity of Leeda Ahmed Isa Al-Oreibi, Hanan Salman Ahmed Haider and Salwa Hasan Ahmed Haider, who were sentenced to one year imprisonment on May 13th 2000. According to the procedure of the State Security Court, they did not have the right to appeal.

According to BHRO, these three ladies had previously been arrested in 1998, although eventually released after local and international pressure, having suffered ill-treatment and torture in detention.

Geneva, 10th October 2000