Bahrain Mirror: Political detainee Jouma'a Nasser said that the Jaw Prison administration deliberately prevented him from taking his high school exams, because he complained about their ill-treatment.

He explained in an audio recording published by human rights activist Ibtisam Al-Saegh (Saturday, January 8, 2022), that the prison administration took him on Wednesday, December 29, 2021 to the visiting building, where he was scheduled to sit an exam, and that he remained there, along with others, from 8:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. without doing the exam. He was returned to the building at 5 p.m.

He added that he had filed a complaint with Lieutenants Abdulrahman Al-Khasharm and Mohammed Jamal over what he had been subjected to, but the lieutenants decided to punish him for his complaint by putting him in solitary confinement for a whole week, indicating that he was deprived of doing five exams.

The detainee went on to say that after the end of his solitary confinement (Wednesday, January 5, 2022) he was scheduled to conduct two tests that day, but he was prevented from doing them on the grounds that the halls were full. After reviewing them the following day (Thursday, January 6, 2022), they informed him that there was no exam for him.

Detainee Jouma'a Nasser is serving a 7-year prison sentence over a political case. He is held in building 5, ward 3, cell 2, and has served 4 years of his sentence.

Al-Saegh denounced the denial of education the detainee is being subjected to, saying that it is shameful to deprive a detainee of education as a punishment for an internal violation in prison, calling on the Ombudsman Secretariat and Education Ministry to follow up on the incident. She also urged the prison administration to provide all that would guarantee the prisoner access to his right to education.

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