Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): Bahraini security forces arrested Ahmad Abd Al-Ali Al-Aali, from the town of Aali on April 13, 2018, after he was pursued by Interior Ministry forces.

Activists confirmed that Al-Aali was taken to an unknown destination, while the reasons for the police pursuit and arrest were unknown.

Human rights activists express concern that political prisoners are subjected to torture in order to give confessions that are used as the main incriminating evidence in courts, whose members are appointed by royal decrees.

Human rights groups question the independence of the judiciary and accuse it of complicity with the security agencies that are involved in torturing dissident.

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