@Khaled_Bin_Ali @BahrainEmbDC Husain Abdulrasool Salman Abdulla Husain (16), Sayed Hasan Ameen Jawad Abdulla (16), Faris Husain Habib Ahmed Salman (17) and Mohammed Jaafar Jasim Ali Abdulla (16) – who are being tried as adults before Branch Four of the High Criminal Court, a
court specializing in terror-related cases. They stand charged with arson for handling (and using) Molotov cocktails on February 14, 2020 in Karrana, a village north west of Manama. They each face between two and ten years in prison.
On November 30, 2020, the Criminal
On November 30, 2020, the Criminal
Investigations Department (CID) summoned Husain Abdulrasool, and interrogated him without the presence of a lawyer or a parent, and detained him. The CID referred his case to the prosecution unit for terrorism crimes. On February 10, of this year, the CID summoned the other three
boys and their fathers and told them to attend court the next day. All four boys denied the charges. Later, the CID interrogated Sayed Hasan without the presence of his lawyer or father. The four boys remain held at the Juvenile Reform and Rehabilitation Center at Dry Dock.
As a state party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Bahrain is in breach of its obligations. Being under the age of 18, the four boys are children and should be treated in accordance with the principles of a child justice system.
@Khaled_Bin_Ali should investigate the reasons why the boys have been interrogated without a lawyer or legal guardian and refer their cases to the child justice system.
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