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April 17, 2012

Amnesty Report Slams Bahrain for Human Rights Abuses 
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A new report by Amnesty International criticizes the U.S.-backed
Bahraini government for continuing to commit human rights violations
against anti-government protesters. Suzanne Nossel is executive director
of Amnesty International USA.

Suzanne Nossel: "It continues to hold large numbers of people in
detention. It has imposed very harsh sentences on people without fair
trials. There are 14 opposition leaders that remain in custody. There
has been no high level accountability for those abuses. So we see window
dressing in the form of independent investigation that gave an aura of
seriousness on the part of the government in terms of living up to their
human rights responsibilities, but very little in the way of
follow-through."

 

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