Bahrain judiciary extends teens remand custody for attending protest rally

Bahrain’s Public Prosecution has granted the remand custody of two teenagers for another week for participating in a gathering which the tiny PGCC’s Arab sheikhdom declared unlawful.

Hussein Rashid Abdullah and Ali Hussein Abdul Wahab, both 14 years old, were arrested on February 16 in connection with participation in a gathering, and subsequently sentenced to five days in custody.
Thousands of anti-regime protesters have held demonstrations in Bahrain on an almost daily basis ever since a popular uprising began in the country in mid-February 2011.
They are demanding that the un-elected hereditary despotic rule of Al Khalifah regime must end and that tyranny should be replaced with a just system representing all Bahrainis to be established.
Manama has gone to great lengths to clamp down on any sign of dissent. On March 14, 2011, troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were deployed to assist Bahrain in its crackdown.
Scores of people have lost their lives and hundreds of others sustained injuries or got arrested as a result of the Al Khalifah regime’s crackdown.
On March 5, 2017, Bahrain’s parliament approved the trial of civilians at military tribunals in a measure blasted by human rights campaigners as being tantamount to imposition of an undeclared martial law countrywide.
Bahraini monarch King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah ratified the constitutional amendment on April 3, 2017.