On the abuse of women in Bahrain's prisons: 'A woman’s body becomes the symbolic and literal container of the honour and dignity of the entire family. So what does that do? It makes women into walking targets.”
One of the women in the report, Najah Yusuf, had been arrested for criticising the Formula One Grand Prix being held in Bahrain. the Bahrain government at a Washington DC event on Capitol Hill. Bahraini authorities were accused of systematically targeting and abusing female political activists in the country.
In the Foreword to the report, Human Rights Watch Acting Middle East Director Lama Fakih writes: “These women’s accounts of torture, sexual abuse, and inhumane treatment should be cause for grave concern.” The report divulges that “Bahrain is the Arab country with the highest prison population rate per capita in the Middle East as of 2019”, sharing the top spot with Israel,the World Prison Brief. Women are especially vulnerable to being imprisoned because of threats of a sexual nature which not only affect the victims themselves, but their families as well.
Yusuf had been arrested for criticising the Formula One Grand Prix being held in Bahrain. Her arrest ironically illustrated the point that the country had an oppressive regime that didn’t tolerate dissent, and thus should not be rewarded with hosting international events. A clinical psychologist cited in the report, Nimisha Patel, also commented on the abuse the women lived through. Calling it a “form of violence” and “amount to torture”. Patel said: “A woman’s body becomes the symbolic and literal container of the honour and dignity of the entire family. So what does that do? It makes women into walking targets. If you touch that woman; you get her father, her brother, her husband, her children.
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