Report of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry

Report of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry
stop beating him. The detainee was taken to another cell where he was
beaten on his thighs and insulted and told that they would rape his sister. On
the morning of the second day, a Bahraini approached him carrying a black
hose and beat him on his hands and feet. Two Syrians continued beating
him on his body, and the Bahraini then returned with the hose and beat him
in the face, breaking three teeth. The detainee was also electrocuted but it is
not clear by whom. Although the detainee was vomiting, his beatings
continued. He was told to urinate in a jar but was unable to do so.
He was then transferred to the MoI Hospital and blindfolded and beaten on
the way. X-rays of his body were taken and he was subsequently transferred
to the BDF Hospital where he was placed on a saline drip. At the hospital,
he was interrogated by persons who accused him of participating in
temporary marriage and of participating in protests at the roundabout. They
also asked him for details about his sisters and beat him with a hose. At the
BDF Hospital, he was put on dialysis for his kidneys and after four days he
was taken back to the Riffa police station, at which point the torture stopped.
After three days he was transferred to Dry Dock Detention Centre for two
and a half months, and then back to the police station for two weeks. When
his condition worsened, he would be taken back to the BDF Hospital for
dialysis.
CASE NO. 27
(Examined by forensic team)
Date of statement: 25 August 2011
Statement: On 15 March 2011, the detainee was demonstrating in Sitra
when riot police attacked the demonstration and injured five persons
including the detainee. The injured persons were taken away by ambulance
but the police stopped the vehicle on the way to hospital. Due to the nature
of his injury, which was in the thigh area, the detainee could not stand and
was lying down in the ambulance. The police instructed the medical staff
and injured persons to leave the vehicle. They shot the tyres with birdshot
pellets and hit the driver on his neck with a gun. The female doctor was
threatened with rape but left alone after police officers discovered that she
was Sunni. The detainee lay in the ambulance pretending to be unconscious
and was left alone. Afterwards, he was taken to SMC where X-rays revealed
no broken bones. Riot police and the army took over SMC on 17 March.
The detainee was taken out of his hospital room (in Ward 4), thrown on the
floor, beaten and forced to make animal sounds. On 20 March, he asked to
be discharged. On his way out of the ward, he passed a checkpoint and was
asked about his injury. He informed them it was bird pellets and he was
then beaten for four hours by the Saudi military.
The detainee was taken to Al Naim Police Station and beaten on the way.
He was transferred to the Central Police Station and then to the BDF
Hospital where he was interrogated and threatened. He informed an officer
of his treatment but the officer said that there was nothing he could do about
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