Al-Khabaz's family, which has four of its sons in al-Khalifa prisons,"Fadhil, Murtada, Muhammad and Maher (who sentenced to death)" on political grounds, said that they subjected to the severest forms of torture and systematic violations.
The family explained that they had received a call from Mohammed confirming that he was withdrawn during the attack on his cell to the corridor away from the cameras. He was severely beaten there by the official of the building called Salah who is a Yemeni and another Syrian nationality, in addition to a Yemeni force agent and two Bahraini officers, where they beat him on his broken leg, and strangled him forcibly, and threatened to kill him before his brother Maher.
The family held al-Khalifa entity the responsibility for the systematic torture of their sons, demanding their immediate release.