Bahraini authorities raid homes and torture suspects for confessions...

Security forces in Bahrain have been raiding dozens of homes each day since April, arbitrarily arresting young men, and torturing them to force confessions to some crime, a local rights group said on Tuesday.

Plainclothes police, some of them dressed in neon-colored vests and black ski masks, knocked down doors of houses in at least 10 villages across the tiny Gulf monarchy on Monday and arrested several people, Yousif al-Muhafda, deputy-head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), said.

In the latest home invasions on Tuesday, Muhafda documented raids in at least four villages including al-Shakhtoura, Sehla, Nabi Saleh and Ma’ameer with a number of arrests.

“In one day, there are at least 30-35 house raids,” the rights activist told Al-Akhbar.

“Many times they aren’t looking for specific people. They just storm a house and ask the family if they have any young men,” Muhafda added. Full story...

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