Sheikh Mirza Al-Mahroos Testimony to Court:

I, Abdullah Issa Al Mahroos and renowned Mirza Al Mahroos

Occupation: Religious Scholar and Imam
I have specialised in the science of Islamic law and studied religious sciences for
nearly 35 years.

I returned to my country Al Bahrain in 2001.

I taught theology in scientific seminaries as well as being an Imam of a mosque and
a
religious guide, educational cleric and social reformer. I undertook social activities in
the service of citizens. I significantly participated in creating Al Zahraa Society to
support orphans with my Honourable brother Al Sheikh Mohammed Habib al-
Muqdad, whose job it is to provide humanitarian aid, social services, material and
moral assistance for orphans and others with special needs. I was also involved in
reforming the political system and the struggle against corruption within the state
apparatus. I stood by the peoples demands for their legitimate rights and for that I
was arrested and accused of malicious and obviously fabricated charges by the
tyrannical authority.

It was not the first time that they arrested me. I had already been arrested on 17th
August 2010. I remained in prison for seven months and was subjected to various
kinds of brutal torture throughout that period. In order to be brief, I will not mention
the kind of torture that I was previously subjected to.

There is no victory other than from Allah.

Detention:
I was arrested on 1st April 2011, when the National Security Forces, with heavily
armed riot troops, surrounded me at around three o'clock in the morning, as I was in
the Ancient Country area in (Adeely) house. They began the attack by climbing into
the house and by breaking down the house's inner doors.

I was stricken by panic and fear from the terrorising attack and the number of armed
forces. They pointed their weapons at my face and my head. They dragged me out
of the room where I was sleeping into the hall where they started beating and
torturing me on different parts of my body. There was more beating on my abdomen
and my back and also on my head. This continued for about half an hour; I was in a
mournful state. Then they tied my hands from behind with iron fetters, blindfolded
me and in that state they took me out of the house. Then they carried me to a
National Security Agency's vehicle and I heard them singing and clapping with joy
and delight for arresting me, as if they had achieved a great victory.

They mocked, insulted and beat me on the face until we arrived to the Castle (Al
Qalaa),
National Security Agency building.

They took me out of the vehicle and made me sit on a chair and then one of them
came to me and asked if I knew him and I said, yes I know you through your voice,
you are Badr Ibrahim Ghaith.

He said, "so, you know me" and he beat me on the face with his hand and punched
and hit me on the abdomen, while screaming at me: "who are you who wants to
overthrow the regime?" He started threatening to kill me; he insulted me and
insulted the Shiite sect and belief. He said that they were bastards and society's
refuse, that they had no value to the society and therefore would be sentenced to
death.

In the Castle's prison (Al Qalaa):

I was put in an underground cell in prison to be interrogated. They started beatings
and torture. Among the ways of torturing me, they would hang me up to be lashed
with a stick; hit with a black hose and shouting strongly and intensely, "Who do you
think you are to want to overthrow the government?" They asked me to admit that I
possessed weapons at home, which I denied.

They then continued to hit me on the head with the hose and on the rest of my body
and then they said: "We will carry out an attack on your family, wives, daughter and
mother and we will "dishonour" them. You should consider yourself as dead and
finished." Then they carried on insulting and cursing me with irony and mockery
because of my doctrines. I was screaming in pain and crying and the beating
continued for more than two or three hours.

When they saw me unconscious from severe beatings and torture they dragged me
outside the cell. This situation of beating, maltreatment, insulting and abusing me
continued for seven days. Every day, three courses of severe torture, hanging to be
beaten by a stick or a hose and prevention of sleeping.

Throughout that period, they used electric shocks to the abdomen and dangerous
places for several times, they forced me to stand on my feet and if I moved slightly
or fell to the ground due to the intensity of torture, they beat me with the hose on
the head and all over my body without allowing me any chance to rest. Meanwhile,
the torture continued and during that time I experienced near death three times a
day. On occasions, they did not allow us to pray and they hurried us while we went
to the bathroom; I was blindfolded and handcuffed throughout that period.

Among the torturers and executioners who were torturing and beating me was
Prince Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the king's son. I saw him with my own eyes
during torture sessions and when the blindfold was removed from my eyes due to
many beatings on my face. They called him by his name and I could hear when they
spoke with him. I also saw among the torturers and executioners the former head of
the National Security Agency, Khalifa Bin Abdullah Al Khalifa accompanied by a
gang of torturers and executioners. I also saw them with my own eyes during the
torture sessions. I was also visited by a group alleged to be assigned by the King to
review the issues of sexual abuse during my previous arrest, which I have previously
mentioned.

The gang sat with me and they removed my blindfold, I saw them with my own eyes
and I explained to them the facts of the sexual abuse that had happened to me in
the Dry Dock prison. They then left me and then came again the torturers to
continue torturing and beating me at the same time.

They also tried to force me to sign a statement without any knowledge of its content
and aim, as I refused to sign without reading it, they threatened me with beatings
and torture until they forced me to sign.

I add that I came to know some of the prisoners who have been subjected to
torture.

During the torture, I saw Sheikh Mohammed Habib al-Muqdad subjected to severe
torture that caused him to breakdown. I also saw some prisoners who were tortured
and I heard their voices and cries. I was then transferred to a car and one of the
officials came and asked me if I knew him, I told him no. He then asked for my
blindfold to be removed. They removed it and there appeared lieutenant Abu Ahmed
(who works in the National Security Agency) who started shouting at me in a loud
voice: "You want to overthrow the government?" He strongly, and with hatred,
slapped me in the face, insulted me and my belief and told me: "You have spoken
about sexual abuse and now I will rape you."

He dragged me out from the car and started raising my clothes and pushed his
body against mine from behind and then started threatening me and saying that
they would take me to Saudi Arabia, where they would hang me. He punched me
and handcuffed me and then transferred me to Al Qurain prison, I thought I was in
Saudi Arabia by their talking. I was put into solitary captivity in a ward where there
was no one else, other than Al Sheikh Mohammed Habib al-Muqdad.

They practiced all kinds of torture on me and on Al Sheikh al-Muqdad. I could hear
the sound of him crying and screaming from the severity of the torture. His torture in
prison continued, three sessions a day, in the morning, at noon and at night. The
kind of torture he received was beating with a black hose all over his body,
especially the head, with force and violence. I received torture that included
swearing at me, at my family and my Shiite cult. They spoke abusive words. Like
saying: "We will disgrace your wife sexually."

As well as the mocking, contempt and humiliation that was going on every day,
there was also the pouring of cold water on me and on my clothes and bed. They
deliberately opened the air conditioning although the weather was cold. I was
shaking from the severity of the cold. When I asked them to close the air
conditioning as it was harming my health, they insulted and cursed me and forced
me to lie down in the puddle that had formed in the cell from the original poured
water. I was subjected three times to this kind of torture.

Another kind of torture was from a torturer named Abu Yusuf who spat inside my
mouth and forced me to swallow it; he beat me up if I refused. He then would spit in
my face with a group of his gang and that practice was used every day more than
once. They also hit me and forced me to fully undress and he then sexually
assaulted me by inserting a black hose into my anus and also other things that I'm
ashamed to mention. They also crushed my face with their feet and boots, they then
forced me to kiss their feet and their shoes. They beat and punched me, then they
forced me to lie prostrate. I was totally naked and some of them said: "Who wants
to do it with him?" I was subjected to this kind of torture for an hour every day and
the aim was to belittle me. This level of contempt made me extremely surprised and
puzzled by a State that claims itself Islamic but does such things to a respectable
religious scientist within the core of the society.

Such acts and violations tarnish the face of humanity but I mention them to reveal
the truth and to describe the reality of the criminal system and its inhuman acts that
are in opposition to norms and customs and are in violation of (basic) human rights.
What has been done to me are acts of outrageous breach of faith and morality. I
swear to God, God and God, I wish death rather than what happened to me.

It reminded me of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Guantanamo for the diversity of
the methods of torture and brutality. I swear to God that what I saw is humanly
impossible to describe. After a period in prison, they came to me and they said that
they would send me to the Military Tribunal and they warned me that if I talked
about what happened I would be tortured more than what had already been done to
me. In fact, they took me to the Military Tribunal and there I met the interrogator
whose name is Mahmoud Riadh. He interrogated me on the basis of the statement
which had been prepared by the National Security Agency -- the one I was forced
to sign.

During the interrogation, he was always yelling at me and threatening me with the
death sentence. He accused me of several charges that I denied. He then stood up
screaming and said: "You deny it or admit it, you are inevitably sentenced to death."
He accused me of vile charges fabricated by the National Security Agency. This
happened to me without a lawyer and I was cut off from all outside contacts.

The interrogator also forced me to sign the statement written by him and when I
refused to sign it, he started threatening me and forced me to sign it. When I
returned from the interrogation session they tortured me, despite the fact that they
were aware that I did not mention to the Tribunal that I had been tortured. The
torturing went on the same for three months. The torturing did not stop until the
Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (Bassiouni Commission) came. My
health had deteriorated from the severity and cruelty of the torture that caused
chronic ailments I suffer immensely from. Among these ailments are internal
bleeding, which was caused by my torturers kicking and stamping their boots on my
abdomen, also kicking in sensitive places and beatings on my legs. I still feel pain
from some of them. The consultant at the Military Hospital told me that my health
state is chronic and the treatment is only to calm the pain. Some of the illnesses that
have been caused by the torture are: severe back and thigh pain caused by long
standing; severe dizziness and loss of balance that cause me to fall on the ground;
the inability to stand straight resulting from scores of blows to the head during the
torture; also loss of feeling and sense of the hand and feeling of numbness. Also, as
a result of torture, I have poor vision (blurred vision) resulting from beating (and
injuring) my eyes, there was also beating on the nose that caused bleeding. I do not
know what will happen to me in the future with the effects and impairments caused
by the torture. I hold the government fully responsible for this and its rules bear the
responsibility for all that happened to me and of anything that will happen to me in
the future.

The event on the day of the verdict in the military court on 22.06.2011:
They put us in the dock as we listened to the judge who read his verdict against us.
When he passed his cruel and unjust verdict, we responded by a peaceful slogan:
"People want freedom." Simply because of saying that slogan, the soldiers
immediately violently and menacingly attacked us and dragged us out of the dock
and threatened us with beatings and torture.

They then started pushing us against the wall and handcuffed our hands from
behind and carried on beating us mercilessly. The Professor Abdul Hadi al-Khawaja
was beside me and I heard him screaming and saying: "Do not hit me on my face, I
had an operation on my jaws, because they hit him on the same position, causing a
wound directly and the blood ran down his face. They then came to me and beat me
strongly on my eyes that caused them to become red and swollen with severe pain.
I could hear sounds of beating and kicking and voices crying and screaming. They
then carried on kicking me and knocked me down on the ground and I could not
stand up. They dragged me, like dragging a sheep, into the waiting room and there
they hit me again on different parts of my body. Afterwards they took us to the cars
and took us back to detention. At the detention gates, they started beating me once
more and knocked me down on the ground and then the nurse came and carried
me inside the prison.

I was unable to stand due to the severity of what had happened to me and I could
not look at them because of the beating on my eyes. There, I was treated with
compresses. I was not transferred to the hospital because I was in such a terrible
state they wanted to avoid the violations being recorded in a medical report, as the
impact on the eyes and the rest of the body were clear. Therefore, they contented
themselves only with the nurse. The witnesses to this incident, the injury to my eyes,
the beatings and torturing, are the 14 prisoners who were with me at the same time
and who are all willing to give evidence. On the second day of the incident, they
dragged me to the military court with Al Sheikh Mohammad Habib al-Muqdad.

When the lawyer Reem Khalaf saw me, she asked me about the injury on my eyes. I
told her about it and we lodged a complaint to the Military Court on the beatings
and torture that happened to me. This happened at the Court and among those who
saw the marks of torture were the judge himself (Colonel Mansour Al Mansour) as
well as the Military Prosecutor, among them were Captain Mahmoud Riadh and
Major Mazen and Abu Salman. When Abu Salman saw the injury on my eye, he said:
We were not expecting this to happen to you. When I blamed him for what they
did to us in court and under their care, he said that this matter was not under his
control and he did not know how it happened and who ordered it. We have
presented a complaint to the Military Prosecutor about what had happened to us,
the beatings and torture inside the judiciary building, we only received a reply to tell
us that the complaint was not accepted for lack of evidence. When I spoke on the
matter with the prosecution investigator, he smiled and did not say a thing. That
incident happened on 22nd June, 2011.

Violations, abuses and cases of torture:

1. I recall cases of violations and abuses that took place against me in prison,
which represent major crimes against humanity. The torturers, executioners
and the symbols of the system bear the responsibility for those acts.

2. Insulting religion and sect, contempt for the respected Shiite confession,
insulting religious leaders and beliefs, insulting and ridiculing confessions
and their leaders.

3. Threats to assault the family, humiliate and disgrace our dignity through
words such as: "We will do up your wife, your daughters and rape you."

4. Forcing us to kiss pictures of the Bahraini regime symbols and the Saudi
king. We were forced every day to do so.

5. Forcing us to kiss their shoes and then crushing our faces and our heads
with their shoes.

6. Forcing us to insult and to verbally abuse ourselves, our families and our
religion and telling us: "You are sons of pleasure (bastards)."

7. They always threatened us with death and say that they would inevitably
sentence us to death because we disobeyed the nation and did not have
loyalty to the system and its symbols.

8. They were spitting at our faces and forced us to open our mouth so they
then could spit phlegm inside our mouths and force us to swallow it. They
did this to us many times over a period of three months.

9. Nightly harassment to prevent us from sleeping by harshly banging the walls
of the cell in order to terrify us and to deny us sleep.

10. Restricting us from going to the toilets. We were seldom allowed to go and
then we were rushed.

11. Forcing us to stand on our feet all the time with hands raised without
reclining on the wall, which caused us to sometimes faint and fall on the
ground.

12. The thrashing position (al falaqa): it is a position where the prisoner is hung in
a way that his head is down and his head at the top (sic) and they beat us
with water hoses and sticks. This has been used on several occasions.

13. Pouring cold water on our body, sleeping mattress and blanket when the
atmosphere was cold then turning on the air conditioner, which caused us to
get sick.

14. Handcuffing our hands behind our backs and blindfolding our eyes, covering
our head. This happened to us repeatedly, all we wanted was to go to the
court or prosecutor.

15. Forcibly undressing and leaving me naked. The soldiers were mockingly
looking and jeering at me. Their aim was to humiliate me. Then they started
beating, kicking and sexual harassment, using a black hose and kicking in
sensitive areas and saying that they would rape me. This has happened
several times to me in Al Qurain prison.

16. Forcing us to cover all our body on the way to the bathroom, so that no one
could see us and we could not see anybody.

17. Not allowing us to use the bathroom or to wash and change our clothes for
long periods of our captivity.

18. Putting us in solitary confinement in a small cell and preventing us from
talking to anyone. That continued for several months.

19. Forcing us to sign the interrogation statement at the National Security
Agency and at the Military Prosecution without knowing its contents.

20. Deprivation of contacts with a lawyer during the interrogations.

21. Deprivation of medical care and failure to provide adequate treatment to us.

22. Deprivation of contact with family and relatives and the outside world.

23. Failure to provide adequate food and depriving us of a healthy nutritional
diet.

24. Deprivation from the practice of religious rituals and sometimes preventing
us from praying. They did not provide us with what we needed to do our
prayers such as prayer mats and prostration. There was no clean and
respectable place to practice worship.

25. Depriving me of the Holy Quran, prayers and religious books, as the most
elementary rights of the prisoner.

26. Forcing and obliging us to insult, curse ourselves and use obscenities that a
human being is ashamed to mention, such as "I am the son of a whore," "I
am a dog" and "I am an animal".

27. Beatings violently with sticks, coarse wire on the head, back, abdomen,
thighs and other parts of the body; kicking our legs. This happened to us
continuously for almost three months.

28. Deprivation from sleep for seven consecutive days in the Castle prison,
which caused me to fall unconscious several times. They mercilessly,
ruthlessly beat and kicked me to reawaken me. This is a brief and concise
account of the gross violations that occurred to me in the Castle and in Al
Qurain prison. There are many things that I have not mentioned in respect of
briefness.

Asking me to apologize and forcing me to be filmed:
One day, as I was in solitary confinement in Al Qurain prison in April 2011, I was
asked to get ready. I did not know why. I was transferred to another place; they
handcuffed me with an iron wire, blindfolded and covered my head and face with a
bag. The car took me to a place about half an hour away. They then told me: "You
will now meet Al-Sheikh and we want you to cooperate with him and if you do not
answer positively to his demands, we will severely punish you."

When he saw me, he asked them to change my clothes. The masked men did what
they were told and brought me some clothes to wear. Their treatment was harsh, full
of insults and verbal abuse. After wearing the clothes I sat in front of this person
who was named Al-Sheikh The way of preparing the meeting indicated that the
purpose was for filming. Al-Sheikh asked: "Apologise to the king and the royal family
because you claimed the overthrow of the system.

They were focusing on the need to apologise and I, as I had to, refused to apologise
and told them I did not commit an error, all I demanded was reforms and because of
the stubbornness of the state and its retreat from any reforms, the people started
the February 14 uprising. I told him that the reason for the crisis was the system's
lack of trust in people, which led to the deterioration of the situation in the country.
Lack of trust leads to anything and the system cannot stay in power if it does not
trust the people.

Al-Sheikh said: "You are disloyal to the nation and you are loyal to anti-nation."

I answered him: "We are loyal to the nation, but being loyal to the nation does not
mean loyalty to specific people in the nation, but loyalty to the soil of the homeland
and in the interest of our people." However, this person restated that the loyalty
must be to the nation's symbols and the royal family. I did not accept his response
and the reply was a harsh punch and insults by some masked men who were
surrounding him. The beating was severe, and more than that, they threatened me
with rape and they said that they would disgrace me.

Allah forbids! After verbal attacks and after severe beatings I was brought back to Al
Qurain prison where I was welcomed by another session of torture, beatings, insults
and outrageous threats.

The raid on my house:

On 17th March, 2011, the forces of the National Security Agency, with forces from
the Interior Ministry, surrounded my house, raided it and destroyed all the internal
doors including the outer gate. The smashing of the doors included all internal doors
of the rooms, especially the bedroom, where they viciously, shamefully inspected
and tampered with the contents of the house. They took out our clothes from the
cupboards, even the women's clothing, and shredded it and threw it about the
room. They took the family's private photos, threw books and tore them. They
messed with all the contents of the house as well as tearing apart books and
throwing them in the sitting room.

That day, in the house, they stole five computers, four receiver devices, private
photos, cash and bags containing the family's private and personal documents,
mobile phones and books from the bookshelves. The house was turned into a
rubbish bin. That crime was carried out by forces of the National Security Agency
and Ministry of Interior. They should be brought to justice to prevent similar crimes
in the future.

I hope that the court manages to establish justice and fairness from oppression, for
those whose rights were violated, those who suffered physical and mental damage
and victims of torture. If justice establishes its limits, these crimes will be
suppressed in our dear country and that is the wish of all who are righteous and
desirous of the interest of society. We wish well to the entire nation, progress of its
interests and justice to the oppressed of this decent nation.

Malicious charges attributed to me by the system:
The system acted to fabricate a nasty plot in order to hit the political opposition,
forge hateful charges against it and alienate it from the political scene inside prison
hideouts ...

Among those false accusations:
1. Planning to overthrow the regime by force.
2. Establishing an illegal association.
3. Communicating with a foreign country.
4. Inciting hatred against the regime.
5. Contempt of those who are granted the Bahraini nationality.
6. Disturbing public order.
7. Working to change the constitution by force.

All of these charges are unconvincing and malicious. They are only a house of cards
and there is not one authentic piece of evidence against us in all the charges
mentioned. The system had masterminded a plot against all respectable people of
the nation who had honest and noble oppositional positions and wanted to reform
the system but the system masterminded plots in order to defeat them.

Instead of acting to reform the corrupted issues, the state persisted in the
exploitation of the people. Along this line it charged us with harsh sentences,
tarnished our image in the media and acted to smear us through misinformation
(State Media). I add here that this group has been known for their fidelity to the
nation since the nineteen eighties, some of them were companions of Al Sheikh
Jamri known for their devotion to the nation and for their demands for reforms to the
state apparatus.

Among the State's acts and fabrication of false accusations, there was the famous
phony charge (terrorist cell) in 2010, when I was arrested in August 2010 with a
group of prisoners of conscience, among them were the majority of this group. I was
brutally tortured by various methods of inhuman torture in the Castle prison of the
National Security Agency for an entire month. I was then transferred to the Dry Dock
Prison where the severe torture continued for nearly six months. We were then
released on 23rd February, 2011. At that time, the newspapers and human rights
organisations reported that we were prisoners of opinion. Twenty days after our
release the authority repeatedly arrested us and forged the same charges, which
were masterminded by the same system services. It was impossible to undertake all
these acts in that short of a period, which shows that it was a clear lie -- an obvious
conspiracy with a clear objective. We are now victims of the State's apparatus and
this is one of the main types of corruption in the country. If anyone claims reforms,
they fabricate plots against them and disgrace them through the official newspapers
and TV.

One piece of clear evidence regarding our torture is mentioned in the Bassiouni
report which contained many testimonies and also an acknowledgement of all that
happened including the martyrdom of a group of detainees under torture in prison
following the events of February and March. The State used to, and still practices,
the violence and murder of innocents in the streets under the world's view. It is not
interested in human rights organisations denunciation and international bodies, no
matter what the scale, as it veils the torturers' violence and kills demonstrators in
cold blood. I here refer to the need of reviewing my documented statement in the
Bassiouni report, in Annex/Case 5, which contains a brief overview of some of what
happened to me, of the various mistreatments and torture.

Arbitrary detention reasons:

1. Of the things that led to my arrest was my complaint against the Interior Minister,
because of the aggression against me during our peaceful sit-in, in front of the
Court in 2010, where the anti-riot forces hit me, knocked me on the ground, nastily
dropped my turban, humiliated and hurt me. I lodged a complaint to Al Hoora police
station. The minister wanted me to be arrested and framed me for revenge against
my position and the like.

2. I also lodged a complaint against the Interior Minister for excessive use of force
and the use of shotguns against people's peaceful protests; also brutally assaulting
them.

3. My participation in calls for the release of political prisoners (prisoners of
conscience), who were condemned with harsh sentences and accused under false
charges. It was my position to protest against the State for those unjustified illegal
and inhumane practices. Of those victims were detainees from Al Ma'ameer and
from Karzakan, against whom the State orchestrated forged charges of murder and
vandalism. It is well known that they were protesting against the ferocity of the
system and were activists.

4. I also had an active political position through speeches; raising people's
awareness of their political rights; and criticising the State for its incorrect policy.
Since I was a political and social activist, I was targeted, jailed and accused under
false charges.

5. I demanded the society's universal freedom and rights, such as freedom of
expression, opinion, and putting an end to the monopolisation and looting of public
wealth and funds; not playing with words of the law, to support and protect crooks
within the apparatus of the state, as there is no one above the law. I demanded the
fair division of wealth; reform of all corrupted state agencies, reform of the society
and the nation, as the fruit of the prophet's mission to the nation is the
establishment of justice.

I heard the screams and pleas of some of the detainees inside solitary confinement,
among them were, Mr. Hassan Mushaima, Al Sheikh Abdul Jalil al-Muqdad, Mr.
Salah Al-Khawaja, Mr. Abdul Wahab Hussein and Al Sheikh Mohammad Habib al-
Muqdad, whose cell was adjacent to mine and I could hear his pleas and cries from
the intensity of his agony during every torturing session, morning, afternoon and
evening.

6. I have seen the entire group of 14, beaten, insulted and humiliated during the
sentencing hearing on 22nd June 2011. Insults and all sorts of humiliation were
directed to the group during each court session, during and after the hearing it was
done by the military police who were very harsh.




List of the names of people who have been tortured:

I below reveal some of the names of people whom I saw with my own eyes and
heard being tortured in the Castle and Al Qurain prison:

1. Al Sheikh Mohammed Habib al-Muqdad: I saw him in the castle, in the section
that belongs to the National Security Agency, during the first days of my detention.
The torture team handled Al Sheikh Mohammed Habib and I at the same time,
continuously for seven days, day and night. Whenever a team finished with the
torturing session it was assigned to, it was replaced by another team to continue the
torturing job. This treatment continued until we were almost dead. I saw Al Sheikh
Mohammed Habib al-Muqdad who was overpowered.

We were in despair of life, handed our soul to God and we together gave our last
prayer. That was in the Castle prison. After we were transferred to Al Qurain's
military prison where the second phase of torment started. We were put in a prison
ward. Al Sheikh Mohammad Habib al-Muqdad was in the first ward and I was in the
last ward, but I could hear his screams and pleas from the severity and cruelty of the
torture and he could also hear mine. They were coming to torture us in the morning,
afternoon and at night. I could hear them ordering Al Sheikh Muqdad and forcing
him to insult himself and his family. They were doing the same to me. If it was not
for the mercy of Almighty God Almighty we would have lost our souls from the
severity of the torture.

2. I witnessed Mohammed Hassan Jawad's torture in the Castle prison. I heard his
distinctive screaming, he was saying, "O God! O God!" from the severity of the
beatings and torture. He was subjected to thrashing (Al Falaqa).

3. I also witnessed Jassem Al Hayki and I could hear his screaming and the severity
of his torture. He was subjected to suspended flogging (al falaqa). They used
electrical wire and you could also hear at the same time people screaming at the
severity of the torture. It was non-stop, but I did not know any of them only Sheikh
Mohammed Habib al-Muqdad. Mohammed Hassan Jawad and Jassem Hayki who
were among the hundreds who endure torture in the Castle prison.

4. In Al Qurain military prison I could hear screams and moans from sessions of
torture from the cells. Mr Hassan Mushaima and Sheikh Abdul Jaleel al-Muqdad,
Salah al-Khawaja, Abdul Wahab Hussein and Sheilh Mohammad Habib who were in
prison cells adjacent to mine. I could hear the torture and pleas on every session.

5. I have seen the entire group of 14 being beaten and cursed during the sentence
hearing of 22nd June, 2011. The group received insults and ridicule during each
court hearing, during transportation and during the wait before and after the
meeting. The military police acted too harshly each time.