Fukuyama Calls for AlSingace Release as US Approves Military Sales to Alkhalifa

KABUL: (Middle East Press) As Bahrain’s Independence Day approaches the Alkhalifa regime has intensified its crackdown on native citizens.

In the week 3rd-9th August at least 34 people were arrested.

This morning regime’s Death Squads snatched Hajji Ibrahim Helal from AlMa’amir in dawn raids on the town. Also a leading human rights activist has been summoned by the torture directorate (PPS) for expressing his views on the current situation.

Dr Maitham Al Salman has now been accused of “inciting against the regime”. Anyone who criticizes Alkhalifa crimes is likely to be accused of this unforgivable “crime”.

He is expected to be jailed in the next few weeks. Furthermore the case of the jailed liberal activist, Ibrahim Sharif, has been presented to one of the Alkhalifa courts.

He will appear at that kangaroo court on 24th August for the second time in four years. He is charged with inciting to change the hereditary dictatorship.

A Bahraini poet, Hamed Hayat was arrested last week for speaking out against the regime.

Two women were detained from Sitra; Siddiqa AlBasri and Siddiqa AlAlawi. AlBasri was later released on bail. Among the recent detainees from Sitra are: Sadiq Jaffar Hassan and Sayed Mohammad Sayed Radhi. From Eskan Mahazza, the arrests involved: Mohamad Ali AlShami, Hassan Ali AlShami, Sayed Adel Sayed Mahamood, Sayed Adnan Sayed Dhiya, Hassan Abdul Karim Marzooq, Isa Abdul Karim AlAkrawi, Mohammad Mansoor Eid, Mohammad Ali, Yousif Jassim AlRoumi, Ali Jaffar Khamis, Ahmad Jaffar Jassim, Mohammad Radhi Abdulla Hassan, Mohammad Ibrahim AlTawq, Ali Abdul Karim Marzooq, Redha Abdulwahhab AlKhayat, Jassim Mohammed Saleh, Ali Mahdi Ebrahim,  Sayed Mahmood Ali,  Mohammed Jaffar Jassim, Abdulla Isa Khudhair, Khalil Ibrahim Tawq, Ali Ahmed AlFersani, Hussain Isa Abdulla. From Sitra Wadyan: Hussain Jaffar Taqi, Hassan Ebrahim Kwaid, his brother Jaffar and Ali Makki Edraboh.

On 5th August Mohammad Suroor from Markh Town was arrested. He had earlier been sentenced to six months in one of those unfair trials. From Duraz, under-aged Hassan Saleh was arrested at the airport. One of the youngest native Bahrainis to be sentenced to long term imprisonment is Ammar Yasser Abdulla Abbas, 13.

He has been sentenced to six months jail for participating in anti-regime protests.

Last week’s decision by Bahrain’s dictator to suspend the publication of AlWasat newspaper caused severe embarrassment to his backers in Washington and London.

He was subsequently forced to revoke his decision. It was one of the most disastrous decisions by the hereditary dictatorship as it confirmed beyond any doubt that it simply cannot be reformed.

People like UK’s Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, were caused severe embarrassment. A regime that cannot tolerate a small moderate newspaper cannot be described as being “on the right track of reform”. The catastrophic decision encouraged several Congressmen to table a bill calling on the Administration to stop arming Alkhalifa regime. In London, the rapid ascent of Jeremy Corbyn, the life-long supporter of the Bahraini people, is also causing embarrassment to the establishment which has adopted unwise decisions to continue supporting the most reactionary and oppressive regimes in the world; those of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. He is the favorite to win the Labour Party’s leadership perhaps from the first round. If that happens he will most likely win the next general elections.

Anger is rising after the American decision to supply the Alkhalifa torture regime with weapons that can be used against innocent civilians. Last week Washington approved the sale of $150 million worth of equipment to Alkhalifa to maintain their fleet of Lockheed Martin Corp F-16 fighter jets, even as two U.S. senators introduced legislation to reinstate an arms sales ban that was lifted by the Obama administration in June. The President of Human Rights First, Brian Dooley, said that the US can protect its reputation among Bahrainis if it revokes its decision to supply Alkhalifa dictators with weapons.

In USA the faculty and 2015 fellows of the Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program at Stanford University signed an open statement calling for the immediate release of Dr Abdul Jalil AlSingace: They said: “We call for the immediate and unconditional release of Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace in addition to all human rights defenders and activists in Bahrain who are detained in violation of Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Bahrain is a state party. We urge that Dr. Al-Singace receive full and immediate access to specialized medical attention as a matter of urgency. We remind Bahrain of its obligations to comply with the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.”