Solidarity with Dr Singace on The International Day in Support of Torture Victims

 

 

Dr Abdul Jalil Al Singace, 53, has been on hunger strike for almost 100 days protesting the ill-treatment and torture of prisoners. He has lost more than 25 kg and developed serious ailments to his limbs, respiratory and blood circulation systems. He has testified several times about the torture inflicted on him since his arrest on 17th March 2011. He was subjected to many crimes of torture including:

-  Being forced to stand on one foot for long periods. Since he had polio from birth his body weight was concentrated on the right foot. His knee is now damaged.

Denial of sleep by banging on the doors of the cell and the corridor floors during the night.

-  Being forced to wake up at night, remain sitting on the sponge bed, and subjected to cold water poured on his body and bed. Then he was forced to sleep on the soaked bed in winter nights.

-  He was repeatedly attacked sexually, either forcibly stripped naked, having sharp items inserted in his private parts or being fingered.

-  Being woken up in early hours of the morning, forced to take shower with icy water and returned to the room with cooling system on maximum.

 In his earlier detention in 2010 he had also been tortured. In his testimony Dr Singace said:

 

"...I was handcuffed and blindfolded the entire time, they beat me on my fingers with a rigid instrument; they slapped me on my ears and I was pulled by my nipples and ears by tongs, and I was hit with a rigid object on my back and that was to force me to sign papers I had no knowledge what was written on them…"

 

On the International Day in Support of Torture Victims (26th June 2015), show your support to Bahraini victims of torture by:

-        Calling for an immediate end to torture by Alkhlaifa tribal regime

-        Calling on UK Government to stop supporting Alkhalifa torture regime

-        Lobbying for a visit by the Special Rapporteur of Torture, Juan Mendez, who has been repeatedly banned from visiting Bahrain

-        Urging UK Goverment, which is the main supporter of Bahraini torturers to order them to bring torturers to justice

-        Adopting a Bahraini torture victim and highlighting his/her case