Ahmed Jaffar Mohammed Ali was extradited regardless of an ECHR ruling he not be despatched house pending additional investigations.
A Bahraini political dissident has been extradited from Serbia following an Interpol Purple Discover issued at Manama’s request, the inside ministry mentioned, regardless of a ruling by the European Courtroom of Human Rights (ECHR) prohibiting the extradition.
In keeping with the London-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), Ahmed Jaffar Mohammed Ali, 48, was extradited on Monday beneath the worldwide arrest request relationship again to 2015, regardless of an ECHR ruling he not be despatched house pending additional investigation.
Ali had been convicted of “terrorism-related offences” – a cost usually handed all the way down to many who’re perceived by the state as dissidents.
BIRD cited the Strasbourg-based ECHR as saying Ali shouldn’t be extradited earlier than February 25 to present it time to look at “attainable dangers of torture and/or ill-treatment that the applicant would face if extradited to Bahrain”.
On Tuesday, Bahrain’s inside ministry mentioned Ali was extradited “after coordination and communication with a pleasant nation”.
He has been handed three life sentences in absentia and a further 10 years in jail for “terrorism-related offences between 2012 and 2015, together with homicide, and manufacturing and possessing explosives”, it mentioned.
The ministry mentioned Ali had beforehand been a “fugitive” in Iran.
Bahrain has prosecuted a whole lot of protesters and banned primary opposition teams after a failed rebellion in 2011 that was led by members of the Shia Muslim majority within the nation and crushed with the assistance of neighbour Saudi Arabia.
Many of the main opposition figures and rights activists are imprisoned or have fled overseas.
Using the loss of life penalty within the small Gulf archipelago has additionally dramatically escalated since 2011, in response to a report by BIRD. The loss of life penalty has been imposed on a scale “by no means seen earlier than”, particularly concentrating on these related to political opposition, it famous, as a number of had attended pro-democracy protests.
Bahraini authorities have denied concentrating on the opposition and say they’re defending nationwide safety, and deny any discrimination towards the nation’s Shia residents.
Bahrain has claimed Shia heavyweight Iran educated and backed the demonstrators in an effort to topple the Manama authorities – an accusation Tehran denies.
“This scandalous extradition by the Serbian authorities that condemns somebody to torture and life imprisonment is completely devastating,” mentioned Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, director of BIRD.
“Ahmed, the sufferer of sham trials, has already suffered torture by the hands of Bahraini officers and now fears violent interrogation and abuse,” he added.
In keeping with BIRD, Ali’s attorneys on the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights intend to “litigate the case earlier than the ECHR with the intention to argue that Serbia has breached the European Conference of Human Rights”.