The cassation court upheld on Monday (May 6, 2019) a 10-year jail term against Amal society leader.

Political Activist Khalil Al-Halwachi asked the prison administration in a letter to apologize for all the violations that took place against him, vow that it wouldn’t happen again, and compensate him for all his belonging that were seized and destroyed.

The European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights (EBOHR) said that detainees held in cell-block 10 in the pre-trial detention unit in Dry Dock prison were subjected to humiliating searching procedures before matters developed into verbal quarrels between the detainees and prison officers who started beating each other.

Bahrain Mirror: The European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights (EBOHR) said that it received information stating that detainee Khalil Ibrahim Al-Saffar, who suffers from a cerebral laceration, is being tortured in the Criminal Investigation Department.

Bahrain Mirror: Human rights defender and Chairman of the European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights, Hussein Jawad Parweez, said that his 68-year-old imprisoned father "Parweez" made a phone call to his family and sounded weary.