Bahrain Mirror: The Dry Dock Prison continues its crackdown on political prisoners, through measures described as arbitrary.

According to the prison cells' union in a statement issued March 8, 2017, the prison's administration continued to deprive prisoners from their rights, through placing them in semi-solitary confinement, and depriving them from food, sports, and sun. The prison also confiscated their school and religious books, and deprived them from reading newspapers, in a systematic policy to place them in a circle of ignorance, the statement also noted.

Moreover, the prison cells' union said the Dry Dock Prison administration also imposed a glass barrier between the detainees and their mothers, children, and families (during visiting hours), without taking into account the humane aspect.

In addition, the statement went on to say that many detainees are placed in solitary confinement for rejecting arbitrary rules and provocations. It stressed that the Dry Dock Prison became a place for harassment and torture instead of reform and rehabilitation, while many prisoners arrested for criminal charges face psychological problems.

On this level, the statement wondered how the National Institution for Human Rights and the General Secretariat of the Grievances have not done anything. It noted that the prison is not full of diseases and insects scattered in the old worn cells, and their beds, on which prisoners cannot sleep.

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