The Bahraini political detainee and is sentenced to life, Sayyed Abbas Mahdi, who is in prison for 10 years now, has directed a message to the OHCHR, calling on him to increase observers at the Bahraini prisons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his message, Mahdi highlighted the ill-treatment and systematic harassment the prisoners are subjected to in Bahrain’s prisons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mahdi pointed out in a voice message that, “We are not allowed to walk except for 45 minutes every day, and we are not allowed to contact our families except once a month and for 30 minutes only.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added, “The prison administration continues to prevent us from holding religious rituals and ceremonies and we do not receive adequate medical care.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Bahraini political detainee and is sentenced to life, Sayyed Abbas Mahdi, who is in prison for 10 years now, has directed a message to the OHCHR, calling on him to increase observers at the Bahraini prisons. In his message, Mahdi highlighted the ill-treatment and systematic harassment the prisoners are subjected to in Bahrain’s prisons. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":91442,"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":[3139,10,31],"tags":[3996,3997,3998],"class_list":["post-91441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arab-world","category-bahrain","category-news","tag-bahraini-prisoners","tag-ill-treatment-of-prisoners-in-bahraini-prisons","tag-ohchr"],"yoast_head":"\n