A number of political death row prisoners in Bahrain said that on Tuesday (December 18, 2018) police attacked the unarmed building in the notorious Jaw Prison and evacuated all death-row convicts from the building, hand folded them and made them stand for long hours. They also threatened them saying that these were their last days and they will soon be executed.

Jaw Prison detainees sent a letter in which they complained about being banned from practicing religious rituals inside prison and the punishments imposed by the prison administration against anyone who violates the rules by practicing these rituals.

Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei said on Twitter that Bahraini prisoners Naji Fateel and Ali Haji were released from solitary confinement, after they were punished following a video recording widely circulated, showing their sufferings in prison and denial of treatment.

Alya Radi, wife of imprisoned Al-Wefaq Secreaty-General Sheikh Ali Salman, said that one of the prisoners with Sheikh Salman in the “figures’ cell” in Jaw Central Prison, Sheikh Mirza Mahrous, is still banned from treating his colon problems.

Human rights activist Ibtisam Al-Saegh said that prisoner Ammar Sahwan is suffering from medical negligence in Jaw Central Prison.

The First High Appeals court postponed considering the appeals of 36 suspects accused of killing officer Hisham Al-Hammadi in his farm in Bilad Al-Qadeem and escaping “Jaw Prison”, which led to the death of police Abdulsalam Saif Al-Yafei, to January 28, to issue its ruling.

Political detainee Hani Marhoun, who has been on hunger strike for a month, demanded in a letter published by activists on Monday (November 12, 2018) to expedite a meeting with the Ombudsman, National Institution for human rights and prisoners’ commission. Marhoun also demanded his right to treatment.

Human rights activist Sayed Ahmed Al-Wedaei said that detainees Naji Fateel and Ali Hajji were transferred to solitary confinement after publishing audio recording in which they talked about the torture they are subjected to, impunity policy as well as negligence of their right to treatment by Jaw Prison administration.

Human rights defender Naji Fateel, who is sentenced to 15 years in jail, talked through a leaked recording about his sufferings in the notorious Jaw Central prison. He said that he lost hearing in his right ear after he was subjected to torture and brutal beatings.

Shiite cleric Sayed Kamel Al-Hashimi was transferred to Jaw Central Prison to serve a 3-year jail term issued against him since 2016, news indicated.

Rights Activist Ibtisam Al-Sayegh said a prisoner is suffering from severe pain in his teeth, forcing him to use diluted Clorox to relieve the pain, especially since he was not referred to a doctor and did not receive any treatment.

The Morning Star newspaper mentioned that a British handcuff manufacturer in Birmingham is being accused of "fuelling oppression" in Bahrain over allegations that its products are being used to restrain political prisoners at a notorious Bahraini jail.

SALAM organization for Democracy and Human Rights has revealed serious violations in Jaw prison against political prisoners who have been practicing Ashura rites.

The family of Mohammed Faraj, a patient who suffers from multiple sclerosis, confirmed that he has been without medication since a week ago.

Human rights activist Ebtisam Al-Sayegh reported the complaints of a number of political prisoners in some of Jaw Central Prison’s buildings due to the continuous water outage that has lasted for five days.

With the increase of cases of chronic and incurable diseases as well as medical negligence in Bahraini prisons, torture is no longer the biggest of the inmates’ worries and their families in Jaw Central Prison.

Family of cancer patient detainee Elias Al-Mullah expressed concerns regarding the new symptoms that appeared on him, calling to allow him receive treatment without delay.

Human rights activist Ibtisam Al-Saegh said that the prisons in Bahrain are selling blankets, bed sheets and pillows to prisoners, which violates their fundamental rights.

Activist Ibtisam Al-Saegh issued an urgent appeal from a mother of a Bahraini detainee suffering from Sickle Cell Disease, in which she demanded revealing the fate of her son and allowing her to meet him after she lost contact with him 13 days ago, after being transferred to the recovery room.

The Bahraini London-based activist Ali Mushaima said that he received several letters from Jaw Prison, Dry Dock Prison and women’s prison in which detainees showed their desire and readiness to start a hunger strike in solidarity with his father, Hasan Mushaima, in protest against his maltreatment and denial of health care.