Bahraini award winning photographer sentenced to two-year imprisonment

A Bahraini court sentenced award winning photographer Ammar Abdulrasool to two years in prison. Many rights organizations condemned the court’s decision and the ongoing prosecution and detention of photographers in Bahrain.

Ammar Abdulrasool was arrested by security forces on July 24th of this year without being shown a search or arrest warrant. The security forces seized two digital cameras and a mobile phone belonging to the photographer.

Abdulrasool was arrested and taken, handcuffed and blindfolded, to the Criminal Investigations Directorate. While in detention, Abdulrasool was forced to stand for three days and denied the ability to pray. He was subjected to enforced disappearance for seven days and was denied access to a lawyer.