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URGENT: Less than 24 hours after US AG Bill Barr brought back federal executions, Bahrain is imminently set to execute two young men who were severely tortured into signing forced confessions. If you do not make noise about this, they will be executed *within hours*.
As I said here, when the US brings back executions, dictatorships around the planet get the message loud and clear. In Bahrain, torture is rampant and forced confessions are routine. Two young men will be killed within hours if there isn't enough noise.
The two young men are Ali Al-Arab (25) and Ahmed Al-Malali (24). They were sentenced to death in a mass trial along with 58 others in January 2018. They and the other men sentenced with them were severely tortured and forced to sign confessions. 
Ali (24) was ordered to kiss the boot of the officer who arrested him, and when he refused he was beaten savagely. He was blindfolded then tortured by electric shock and savage beatings, and his nails were pulled out. The torture only stopped when he signed a confession.
Ahmad (25) was shot twice before his arrest - and they left the bullets in his body for 23 freaking days before giving him treatment. He was held incommunicado for a month during which he was tortured into signing a forced confession.
For context, Trump's Attorney-General Bill Barr has brought back federal executions, with five executions scheduled in December (if no legal challenge). Bahrain took the message and brought back executions *immediately* and no legal challenge is possible.
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Bahrain is a very close ally of the United States and the Trump administration. If you believe executions are wrong, please make noise *NOW*. If you believe torture and forced confessions are wrong, please make noise *NOW*. Ali and Ahmad could be dead within hours.
For developments please follow @salwadaei and @MARYAMALKHAWAJA; both will also take media requests. For statement please check or contact @BirdBahrain_ or @ADHRB
@SAlwadaei @MARYAMALKHAWAJA @BirdBahrain_ @ADHRB Please tag Bahraini embassies in your capital. Call them and express your outrage. Call your elected representatives and ask them to do what they can *immediately*. Send the thread & tweets to journalists you know. We only have hours.
Also follow @angryarabiya for updates
The executions seem very imminent. They are already digging the young men's graves.
Bear witness.
Bear witness.
Bear witness.
Bear witness. They killed them. Tortured until they signed forced confessions, then killed on the basis of these forced confessions.
Bear witness. Bahrain's DC embassy statement on the killings literally cites how capital punishment is legal in the United States. Still wondering why the executions came a day after Trump admin brought back federal executions?
I leave you with this. And a reminder that if not for the policies of successive US and UK administrations, dictatorships such as the Bahraini regime would not dare torture and kill with such impunity.
