Acknowledgements

Mariwan R. Hama, Arthur Koenig Fellow at Human Rights Watch, researched and wrote this report. Joe Stork, deputy director at Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa Division, and Danielle Haas, senior editor in the Program Office, edited the report. Clive Baldwin, senior legal advisor, provided legal review. A Bahraini lawyer who preferred not to be named also reviewed the report. Researcher Faraz Sanei and Salma Abdou and Shannon Mich, interns with the Middle East and North Africa Division, provided research assistance. Amr Khairy, Arabic translation and website coordinator with the Middle East and North Africa division, supervised translation of this report into Arabic. Grace Choi, publications director, and Fitzroy Hepkins, mail manager, prepared the report for publication.

Human Rights Watch thanks Sayed Mohsin al-Alawi from the Bahraini Lawyers’ Society, Sayed Yusuf al-Muhafadha of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Muhammad al-Maskati of the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights, Jalila Salman, vice president of the Bahraini Teachers’ Society and Matar Matar and Jawad Fairooz from Al Wefaq Society for sharing their experience with us and their invaluable assistance during the research phase for this of this report.