These two 12 year old boys are Mohammed and Ayman . This picture was taken during a court session. 


Mohammed and Ayman are amongst the 116 children currently detained in Bahraini prisons.


The percentage of children amongst political prisoners is very high in Bahrain. Infact this rate far exceeds those of the prisons in countries suffering from disturbances such as occupied Palestine (children make up 3.7% of total prisoners) [8] and Iraq (children make up 3% of the total detainees) [9]. This reflects the severity of the latest security crackdown and arbitrary arrests against the most vulnerable group of people in society. Many of these children are in detention charged with issues mostly related to protests, demonstrations and burning tires which the authorities claim these children were involved in.


Not only are these children being held in prisons with criminal adult prisoners but some have even been subjected to torture. The lawyer Balqis Almanami informed the Bahrain Center for Human Rights that the two children, Jaafar Ali Ashour (12 years) and Faisal Hassan Isa (14 years) both told the judge that they were tortured to coerce confessions to charges they did not commit.


Lets all stand TOGETHER AGAINST the TORTURE of these children.