Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): On March 15, 2015, reports emerged about a bus being stopped on the King Fahd Causeway with Bahraini visitors from Iraq on board. Bahrain’s interior ministry claimed that this took place after finding a bag packed with “explosives” on the vehicle and took a 13-year-old boy, who was among the passengers, into custody.

Bahrain Mirror: Lawyer Abdullah al-Shamlawi stated that the juvenile court judge renewed, for the seventh week, the detention of the child, Mohammad Mansour, who is accused of smuggling detonators from Iraq, “without allowing us to visit him or have a look at the investigation papers”.

Sadeq al-Hubaishi: Dear President Barack Obama, I am the father of Jehad al-Hubaishi, who was arrested when he was only 16 years old and joined over 200 child political detainees currently held in Bahraini prisons. I am confident that you will take the necessary steps to address my son’s issue, as well as his friend’s, and the cases of other children.

On April 28th 2015, the ministry of Interior declared that it had arrested 28 Bahrainis whom it accused of being involved in terrorist processes. Among the 28 arrested was a 16-year-old boy, Ahmed Al-Arab.

Bahrain Mirror: A video of Ahmad Abdallah Al-Arab’s mother went viral on social media platforms as she pleaded the world to reveal her son’s fate, who is a 16-year-old youth that was arrested by civil forces on the 13th of April.

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): When international governments refused to care about the Iraqi children, the British people did