Human rights / Prison or detention conditions

Bahrain: 1. Please provide information about a 1994 petition calling for nullification of state security law, reinstatement of the 1973 constitution and the return of the dissolved elected parliament? 2. Please provide information about the arrest of political activists around 1996, in particular whether an activist would have been tried and sentenced if he was in detention for three years? 3. Please provide any information about continued harassment by the authorities today, of those who have been detained in the past? 4. Please provide information on any arrest or detention of Bahrainis returning from overseas travel on the basis of being involved in terrorist plots or training against the Sunni elite? 3 June 2009 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses