Manama: a demonstration against use of torture
Bahrain, Politics, 6/25/2005

Hundreds of Bahraini women, including scores of men, demonstrated on Friday before the UN headquarters in Manama demanding reconsideration of the victims of torture and trying persons responsible for it.

The demonstrators raised banners demanding abrogation of decree no. 56 which bans filing cases against suspects who commit torture. The banner said "try those who torture people," and "justice for the victims of torture in Bahrain."

The demonstration was attended by heads of political societies, representatives for legal societies, judicial activists and representatives at the Bahraini parliament. Some 10 political and judicial societies called in the government's statement for "implementing the recommendations of the anti-torture international treaty and to force sides involved in torture cases to be brought before the judiciary."

The statement called for the abrogation of "law 56 and bring all those who carried out acts of killing and torture to just judiciary, " adding that the aim was not to revenge, rather to close the file of the past with its pains and sufferings.

The statement considered that "genuine reform is completed through the restorations of rights to their people and being fair of the victims," noting that "these are the bases for real and optimum national reconciliation."

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