Manama: BahrainThe U.S. government denies abuse of prisoners after rights group Amnesty International charged up bay The empire to stop drugs from a 60-year-old prisoner sitting on hunger strike.
“The quality and standard of healthcare provided to prisoners is comparable to that provided in the community through the public health system,” a government spokesman said in a statement on Saturday.
“The Government of Bahrain has implemented internationally recognized human rights safeguards,” the statement said.
on Thursday, amnesty The International said the prisoner “Abduljal al-Singes, who has been refusing solid foods for a year, has now decided to abstain from health-stabilizing salt in protest against the withholding of some of his drugs by prison authorities”.
Singes was among 13 activists who took part in anti-government protests more than a decade ago, and who were indicted on charges of “setting up terrorist groups to topple the regime.”
A prominent member of the Shia opposition Haq Movement, he is serving a life sentence for his involvement in the 2011 uprising.
“Singes has been behind bars for more than a decade for exercising his rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly,” Amnesty’s Aamna Guellali said in a statement.
Amnesty said Singes suffered from “multiple medical conditions” including “a prostate problem, arthritis in his shoulder joint” and low vision.
Guelli called for the immediate release of Singes and said that the authorities should “immediately ensure that he receives all the necessary medicines without delay”.
An academic and blogger, Singes began a hunger strike in July last year to protest his prison situation and the seizure of the book he was working on by the authorities.
Rights groups say the book contained no political content.
Activist groups and international bodies regularly accuse Bahrain, a close ally of the United States, of repressing human rights defenders.
Since the 2011 Shia-led insurgency in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, which was suppressed with Saudi military support, Bahrain outlawed opposition parties and arrested dozens of activists, prompting international criticism.
Bahrain claims Iran trained and supported protesters so that they could be toppled manama Government – a charge Tehran denies.
“The quality and standard of healthcare provided to prisoners is comparable to that provided in the community through the public health system,” a government spokesman said in a statement on Saturday.
“The Government of Bahrain has implemented internationally recognized human rights safeguards,” the statement said.
on Thursday, amnesty The International said the prisoner “Abduljal al-Singes, who has been refusing solid foods for a year, has now decided to abstain from health-stabilizing salt in protest against the withholding of some of his drugs by prison authorities”.
Singes was among 13 activists who took part in anti-government protests more than a decade ago, and who were indicted on charges of “setting up terrorist groups to topple the regime.”
A prominent member of the Shia opposition Haq Movement, he is serving a life sentence for his involvement in the 2011 uprising.
“Singes has been behind bars for more than a decade for exercising his rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly,” Amnesty’s Aamna Guellali said in a statement.
Amnesty said Singes suffered from “multiple medical conditions” including “a prostate problem, arthritis in his shoulder joint” and low vision.
Guelli called for the immediate release of Singes and said that the authorities should “immediately ensure that he receives all the necessary medicines without delay”.
An academic and blogger, Singes began a hunger strike in July last year to protest his prison situation and the seizure of the book he was working on by the authorities.
Rights groups say the book contained no political content.
Activist groups and international bodies regularly accuse Bahrain, a close ally of the United States, of repressing human rights defenders.
Since the 2011 Shia-led insurgency in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, which was suppressed with Saudi military support, Bahrain outlawed opposition parties and arrested dozens of activists, prompting international criticism.
Bahrain claims Iran trained and supported protesters so that they could be toppled manama Government – a charge Tehran denies.