Bahrain executes three men convicted of terror charges, officials say, despite appeals for clemency from international human rights groups
The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights and the Britain-based Reprieve rights group condemned the execution of three men in Bahrain on Saturday, July 27, 2019.
Rights groups identified two of the men as Shia activists Ali al Arab and Ahmed al Malali, who were sentenced to death last year in a mass trial along with another 56 men convicted and given jail terms on "terrorism crimes." The prosecutor's statement, which did not identify any of the men, said two of them were convicted for crimes including using an assault rifle to kill a police officer in 2017, in attacks orchestrated by what it called Iran-based ringleaders.'Grave injustice'
"Last night's executions demonstrate, once again, Bahrain's callous disregard for international standards of due process," said Reprieve deputy head Harriet McCulloch.In an 11th hour appeal for clemency, HRW's acting Middle East director Lama Fakih warned that King Hamad was committing a "grave injustice by ratifying the death sentences of the two men despite the allegations of torture and other serious due process concerns.
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