Acknowledgments          

Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, a consultant with Human Rights Watch and senior attorney in the New York office of Dorsey & Whitney LLP, researched and wrote this report, with assistance from Joe Stork, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa Division. Human Rights Watch extends special thanks to Dorsey & Whitney for making it possible for Joshua Colangelo-Bryan to work with us on a pro bono basis. Joe Stork and Ian Gorvin, senior program officer in the Program Office of Human Rights Watch, edited the report, and Aisling Reidy, senior legal advisor, provided legal review. Lauren Tarantello, Mohammad Alloush, Felix Legrand, and Lara Haddad, interns with the Middle East and North Africa Division, as well as Elizabeth Rozon, Benjamin Hellerstein, Caroline Gardner, and Carol Calfa at Dorsey & Whitney, also provided research assistance. Amr Khairy, Arabic translation and website coordinator with the Middle East and North Africa Division of Human Rights Watch, arranged the translation of Arabic documents into English and supervised translation of this report into Arabic. Brent Giannota, associate with the Middle East and North Africa Division, provided research and production assistance. Grace Choi, publications director, and Fitzroy Hepkins, mail manager, prepared the report for publication.

Human Rights Watch would also like to express appreciation for the assistance in Bahrain of Nabeel Rajab, president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Abdulla al-Derazi, president of the Bahrain Human Rights Society, Abdul-Jalil al-Singace, human rights coordinator of the Haq Movement for Liberty and Democracy, Muhammad al-Maskati, president of the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights, and Abd al-Ghani al-Khanjar, spokesperson for the National Committee for Martyrs and Victims of Torture.