One of the country’s top most human activists has been held and tortured by the Bahrain’s security forces, his daughter says.
Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, the activist, was captured in the mid night and along with his two sons-in-law. The human rights workers told, it’s the newest in a row of torture during night detain of rival activists.
The Bahrain’s government blames them of provocation and attempting to separate the Sunni and Shia Muslim groups. The daughter of activists says in the early on of Saturday morning up to 20 equipped and masked policemen broke down the door of their house and began assaulting her father.
Maryam al-Khawaja says he presented no resistance but that the men beat him insensible and pulled him downstairs, leaving a follow of blood. She said her family has no news where he has been taken, what he is charged of, or how long he will be detained. Since a long time Abdulhadi al-Khawaja has a spike in the government's side.
So much he is a valued human rights activist, to others he is a risky republican, a Shia who has called for the defeat of the 200-year old Sunni realm.
The government including its supporters has alleged Iran and the radical Lebanese group Hezbollah of assisting to create the anarchy, in which at least 30 people, mostly civilian protesters, have been killed since February. Negotiations between the government and opposition parties over political transformations have delayed.
The Crown Prince has accused militants for discontinuing the talks by established illegal roadblocks, blames them of threatening the people and attempting to divide into groups.
Bahrain is now under grip of emergency constitution with hugely equipped troops detectable on certain street areas and over 1,500 Saudi and other Gulf state troops and police stationed.
Opposition activists have described it an offensive but most of the Bahrainis, usually but not entirely Sunnis, have greeting the use of troops as the country had showed to be moving towards unrest. In the mean time at least 400 people are expected to have been arrested and hundreds more have been sacked from their jobs for contesting in the protests for democracy.
One of the senior researchers for Human Rights Watch, Daniel Williams, who is presently in Bahrain, said arrests were going on in the people's houses about every night here, with many captives being arrested incommunicado. The government says there will be no mercy for those it calls militants.
But Human Rights Watch says there is no justification for the illogical arrests and physical torture of the government's rivals.

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