Three Indians hurt in Bahrain terror blast recuperating

June 29, 2014

Manama, Jun 29: Three Indian expatriates, severely injured here in a terror blast two days ago, are recuperating in a hospital in Bahrain's capital Manama, a media report said on Saturday.

Binoy Baby, 30, Jayabalan Markose, 47, and Anil Ebraham, 33, were injured when a homemade bomb made out of a gas cylinder exploded in Segaiya area in Manama Thursday night, Gulf Daily News reported.

Markose suffered 35 percent burns on his body including his face, back and legs, while the other two were being treated for back and leg injuries.

All the three Indians expatriates are undergoing treatment at the Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) in Manama after the incident.

According to the report, their condition was "stable" Friday following a visit by Indian embassy officials and Indian Community Relief Fund member K.T. Salim.

The Indian trio was leaving a building near a place where the attackers were blocking roads and setting tyres on fire, the report quoted an eye witness as saying.

Baby, a safety technician, stepped out with a fire extinguisher in an attempt to control the blaze.

"They were trying to use the fire extinguisher when the gas cylinder exploded and fragments came flying, hitting them all over their bodies," the witness said.

The explosion took place in Segaiya area close to the Bahrain Keraleeya Samajam (BKS), where families had gathered for a cultural show.

Bahrain's interior ministry Friday confirmed that three Asians were injured in a gas cylinder blast following acts of vandalism in Segaiya.

The outlawed terror group the Coalition Youth of 14 Feb Revolution, in its Twitter account, Thursday claimed that the action was taken to send a message to the authorities for allegedly not releasing the body of a Bahraini national, Abdulaziz Moussa Al Abbar.

Al Abbar was injured after police clashed with rioters following a funeral procession Feb 23 and died later.

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UN condemns Israeli regime’s ‘organized torture’ against Palestinians

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November 30,2025

The United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) has condemned the Israeli regime for enforcing a policy of “organized torture” against Palestinians.

In a report published on Friday, CAT stated that the occupying regime enforces a deliberate policy of “organized and widespread torture and ill-treatment” against Palestinian abductees, particularly since October 7, 2023, when Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza.

The committee expressed “deep concern over repeated severe beatings, dog attacks, electrocution, water-boarding, use of prolonged stress positions [and] sexual violence” inflicted on Palestinians.

Palestinian prisoners were degraded by “being made to act like animals or being urinated on,” systematically denied medical care, and subjected to excessive restraints, “in some cases resulting in amputation,” the report added.

CAT also condemned the routine application of “unlawful combatants law” to justify the prolonged detention without trial of thousands of Palestinian men, women, and children.

More than 10,000 Palestinians, including women and children, are currently held in Israeli prisons, according to Palestinian and international human rights groups, with 3,474 Palestinians in “administrative detention,” meaning they are imprisoned without trial for indefinite periods.

The report highlighted the “high proportion of children who are currently detained without charge or on remand,” noting that while Israel sets the age of criminal responsibility at 12, even younger children have been abducted.

Children designated as security prisoners face severe restrictions on family contact, may be subjected to solitary confinement, and are denied access to education, in clear violation of international law.

The committee further suggested that Israel’s policies across the Occupied Territories constitute collective torture against the Palestinian population.

“A range of policies adopted by Israel in the course of its continued unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading living conditions for the Palestinian population,” the report said.

On Thursday, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas condemned the systematic killing and torture of Palestinian abductees in Israeli prisons, urging international action to halt these abuses.

Citing human rights data, Hamas stated that 94 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli prisons since the start of Tel Aviv’s genocidal war on Gaza.

“This reflects an organized criminal approach that has turned these prisons into direct killing grounds to eliminate our people,” the resistance movement said.

Hamas called on the international community, the UN, and human rights organizations to immediately pressure Israel to end crimes against prisoners and uphold their rights as guaranteed by all international conventions and norms.

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