{"id":82264,"date":"2022-03-05T13:02:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T13:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=82264"},"modified":"2022-03-05T13:02:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T13:02:40","slug":"human-rights-watch-legal-reforms-in-bahrain-have-little-effect-on-stopping-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/82264-human-rights-watch-legal-reforms-in-bahrain-have-little-effect-on-stopping-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Watch: Legal reforms in Bahrain have little effect on stopping abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"962\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/03\/photo_2022-03-05_16-53-31-1024x962.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/03\/photo_2022-03-05_16-53-31-1024x962.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/03\/photo_2022-03-05_16-53-31-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/03\/photo_2022-03-05_16-53-31-768x721.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/03\/photo_2022-03-05_16-53-31.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Human Rights Watch confirmed that the legal reforms announced in Bahrain have little effect to stop the massive violations in the country.<br>&#8220;Despite mounting evidence of abuse, the British government has not criticized Bahrain&#8217;s arbitrary detention of children or even retracted its statements that appear to support these measures,&#8221; said Bill Van Esveld, associate director of the children&#8217;s department at the organization.<br>He pointed out that &#8220;six boys are still arbitrarily detained in Bahrain for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails that slightly damaged a car next to a police station in Sitra in January 2021 when they were between 13 and 14 years old.&#8221;<br>&#8220;Bahrain is violating children&#8217;s rights under the Restorative Justice Law, which was announced last year, and the law improves some protections for children, but it still falls short in fulfilling Bahrain&#8217;s human rights obligations,&#8221; Esveld said.<br>&#8220;For example, the law does not guarantee the right of children to communicate with a lawyer and their parents during interrogation and provides for the possibility of children being detained if they participate in unauthorized protests.&#8221;<br>He concluded by emphasizing that &#8220;the British government should reconsider its uncritical support for the detention of children by the Bahraini authorities and call for real reforms now.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch confirmed that the legal reforms announced in Bahrain have little effect to stop the massive violations in the country.&#8220;Despite mounting evidence of abuse, the British government has not criticized Bahrain&#8217;s arbitrary detention of children or even retracted its statements that appear to support these measures,&#8221; said Bill Van Esveld, associate director of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":82275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,31],"tags":[54,71,1350],"class_list":["post-82264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bahrain","category-islam","category-news","tag-bahrain","tag-human-rights-watch","tag-legal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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