Twenty Nine people arrested during a protest in Manama; Bahrain pledges to improve human rights record
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    • BAHRAIN

    According to reports, Police arrested twenty nine people on September 20, who are suspected of their involvement in acts of violence during a protest in capital Manama. Manama police chief said in a statement that during demonstration the protesters “threw Molotov cocktails, iron bars and stones” at police and shoppers. Several people joined the protest, which was called by the February 14 Youth radical opposition coalition. 1

    Meanwhile, Bahrain has pledged to improve its treatment of political activists, to crack down on torture and to prevent violence against ethnic and religious communities and also that it will implement most of the recommendations made in a new United Nations report on the country’s human rights situation. Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa told the UN human rights council in Geneva on September 19, that Bahrain would accept the bulk of the UN recommendations but rejected the recommendations for abolishing the death penalty, saying that it would violate Bahrain's constitution. Khalifa promised that his government would tolerate dissent within "the limits of orderly discourse in a democratic society". At the same time, he stated, “We welcome peaceful expressions of disagreement, but not incitements to hatred and violence which damage the social fabric of a nation".2

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