Saeed Shehabi: Bahrain judiciary laughingstock
Saeed Shehabi, with the Bahrain Freedom Movement from London, was interviewed by Press TV to discuss trial of Bahrain’s senior Shia leader Sheikh Ali Salman.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Sheikh Ali Salman appeared in court and he still maintains his stance opposing the charges against him by the Al Khalifa regime.
Shehabi: This is a joke. The judiciary in Bahrain has become a laughing stock. It does not perform in accordance to international law. No fair trial is expected under these circumstances especially when you have a tribal reactionary totalitarian regime and then when you have the full authority of the day to day running of the country in the hands of those whom the people are calling for reform.
So the appearance of Sheikh Ali today and the subsequent decision to remand him in custody for another month is nothing short of revenge from him. It is sentencing him to jail without a proof. He has been in jail for two months now, yet he is still just being transferred from one court to another and then his trials are delayed one after the other.
The reality is that Sheikh Ali Salman is innocent as well as 3,500 to 4,000 Bahrainis who are there to call for political change. At the end of the day Sheikh Ali Salman is the head of the political group in Bahrain and he is well-known all over the world. To call him terrorist or to accuse him of trying to change the regime by military force is ridiculous. It is just a pure, cheap, dishonest lie.
So I think he should have been released, he should not have been arrested in the first place. The same thing happened with Hussain Jawad who was tortured so viciously in the recent days but the regime is living on torture, intimidation, aggression, oppression and collective punishment.
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