400 Bahraini inmates on hunger strike

Bahrain’s main opposition bloc says hunger strike among 400 Bahraini prisoners has entered its second day.

According to IRIB quoting the Middle East Monitor, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society said on its Twitter page that families of the prisoners, jailed in Jo Prison in the southern part of the country, called on the International Red Cross and human rights organizations to take measures against the Bahraini regime and stop “the violations against their sons.”

Wefaq said a number of the inmates “passed out” after they were beaten and insulted, adding, the heads of some others were shaved as a sign of “humiliation,” and “religious figures were insulted before them.”

Concerns grew among the families particularly after they were not allowed to visit their imprisoned sons.

According to Wefaq, some 1,500 inmates were “mistreated,” were at the central prison, where the Al Khalifa regime holds activists on political and security charges.