Activists voice concern over incommunicado detention of Bahraini Shia youth

Activists are reporting that another Bahraini youth is being subjected to incommunicado detention.

Activists are reporting that another Bahraini youth is being subjected to incommunicado detention.

There is growing concern over Hassan al-Moallem’s wellbeing nearly one month after he was arbitrarily detained by Bahraini security forces in the Manama suburb of Juffair.

The authorities have failed to release any information about Al-Moallem’a whereabouts and the charges against him since he was reportedly taken to Manama’s General Directorate of Criminal Investigation two weeks. The directorate is a branch of the kingdom’s security apparatus that has a reputation for torturing the regime’s political opponents and critics.

Those taken into custody by Manama’s security forces are often denied their right to a lawyer and face ill-treatment.