Mahmood Al-Jazeeri
Solitary confinement for contradicting the government
Bahrain
In the Bahraini prison where he has been detained arbitrarily for the past five years and is serving the 15-year sentence he received in 2015, journalist Mahmood Al-Jazeeri recorded a statement in April denying the health minister’s claims to have taken measures to prevent prison inmates from being infected by Covid-19. In reprisal for his statement, which was circulated by the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), the authorities placed him in solitary confinement and suspended his weekly phone calls with his family.
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