GENEVA (30 April 2018) – UN human rights experts* have called for the retrial of four men sentenced to death by a Bahraini military court in a collective trial that breached fair trial and due process guarantees and confessions obtained under torture. They welcomed the news that the King of Bahrain commuted the death sentences to life in prison but deplored the imposition of the capital punishment in the first place. “The fact remains, that they should have never been convicted on the basis of flawed trials, let alone sentenced…
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 30 April 2018. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.