Bahrain Human Rights Society: No to Premature Accusations
Mr. Salman Kamal Al Deen, a member of the Bahrain Human Rights
Society has criticized the spreading of false allegations and passing
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| Mr. Salman Kamal Al Deen |
them on to international human rights organizations. Salman was
commenting on the alleged torture claim made by Bahraini citizen
Jaffar Kazim Ibrahim against members of the security forces which
was later revealed to be a purely ‘honour’ related case. Mr. Kamal
Al Deen stressed the importance of avoiding hasty judgments and
the need to verify any information before disseminating them abroad.
He also affirmed that filing accusations without verification undermine
the credibility of those behind them, and affect human rights activists
and ‘place us in an embarrassing position before international human
rights organizations and citizens’.
On the other hand, Dr. Abduallah Al Drazi, the Secretary-General
of Bahrain Human Rights Society, commented on the issue by saying
that international organizations have their own sources of information
and they have been working in Bahrain for years and know exactly
what is happening on the ground. He believed that communicating
with international human rights organization is not a shameful act
and dose not constitute information leakage, but is about (taking
position). He added that ‘we are not leaking information but working
publicly and anything we say inside Bahrain we say it abroad during
conferences. We are hiding nothing’. Al Drazi continued by saying
that ‘as a Society we always make sure that we have all the accurate
details before issuing any statement or adopting a position considering
that international organizations depend on our statements and information
… I have visited Ibrahim in the hospital and we did not issue any
statement or make any press comments as we did not want to make
any hasty decisions or accusations given the uncertainty surrounding
the incident’.
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