The February 14 Youth Coalition saluted all those who participated in the Twitter campaign “Sick Prisoners in Bahrain”, and dedicated greetings to sick detainees who are sick and endure all the pain and long-suffering . They are not afraid to make their voices heard to demand their rights, and their families who are actively seeking to reveal their suffering despite all the threats they face by the regime.
The statement, issued Saturday, January 18, 2020, addressed the campaign called by the Bahraini opposition in solidarity with prisoners of conscience in Al-Khalifa’s prisons.
The Collation said al-Khalifa’s prisons are teeming with more than 5,000 political prisoners, hundreds of whom suffer from diseases ranging from normal to minor and chronic, while the regime does not differentiate between them. It continues to deprive all patients of their natural and human right to treatment, in retaliation for their national positions.
The February 14 coalition confirmed that the large and widespread interaction with this campaign by activists, human rights groups and citizens in defense of sick political detainees confirmed the extent of faked claims of the regime to protect human rights in general and detainees in particular, and showed how much it lied on the international community under the cover of its pseudo-human rights institutions.
It added that the tweets revealed the suffering of sick detainees, who are, in addition to being denied treatment, suffer the bad conditions of prisons that threat their lives, citing examples of those diseases including cancer, lupus, severe sclerosis, sickle, skin diseases, and others.
