Bahrain Mirror: 25 days after his arrest, news reported that the detained youth Hassan Jassim Al-Hayiki (35 years) died in prison on Sunday (July 31, 2016). The Ministry of Interior said that he died of natural causes in Al-Salmaniya Medical Complex. Meanwhile, activists affirmed that Al-Hayiki died under torture in Dry Dock Prison.

The detained youth was not suffering from any disease when arrested over taking part in Al-Ekr blast, which the authorities said it claimed life of Fakhriya Msallam and injured two of her sons.

The ministry of interior defamed Hassan Al-Hayiki and others; it published their photos on the local and international media after their arrest. It also said that Al-Hayiki received military training on manufacturing explosives at the hands of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard. This is the charge the security authorities use in most of the political cases.

For his part, the Director-General of Reformation and Rehabilitation announced the death of a detainee at the Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) due to natural causes.

He said the deceased suffered from a medical condition and was referred to the doctor at the clinic. He was then transferred to SMC within 10 minutes but died while being treated at the hospital.

The Director-General offered his condolences to the family of the deceased and said the Public Prosecutor had been informed.

It is to mention that the new director general of the prisons is Colonel Yousif Hassan Al-Arabi who was appointed by the King on Wednesday (July 13, 2016). Al-Arabi is an officer accused, in the 2010 report issued by Human Rights Watch (HRW), of taking part in torturing detainees.

In 2010, HRW monitored the human rights situations in Bahrain and issued a report entitled "Torture Redux: The Revival of Physical Coercion during Interrogations in Bahrain".

According to the report, Officer Yousif Al-Arabi and others were among the executioners and torturers in the national security apparatus and Criminal Investigation Department who tortured detainees using electrocution.

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