Weaponizing Tear Gas:Bahrain's Unprecedented Use of Toxic Chemical Agents Against Civilians

We recover this 2012 report from P4HR from the English and Reports-Informes-Recursos sections. Situation in the country has not changed and teargas continues being used massively against peaceful protesters. 

More updated info on @onadaexpansiva #Bahrain @P4HR

Weaponizing Tear Gas:Bahrain's Unprecedented Use of Toxic Chemical Agents Against Civilians by Holly G. Atkinson, MD, FACP Richard Sollom, MA, MPH

Activists in front of the South Korean embassy in London on October 25th, 2013 protesting against the (then) planned massive export of teargas from a South Korean company to Bahrain authorities. Picture from the Stop the Arms Trade campaign.

Full report (pdf)

Executive Summary

Richard Sollom's testimony to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (US Congress) on Bahrain's use of teargas against civilians.

 
The Bahrain government’s indiscriminate use of tear gas as a weapon has resulted in the maiming, blinding, and even killing of civilian protesters, and must stop at once while the government reassesses the use of such toxic chemical agents. 

New HRW report on torture under the Bush Administration.

 A good report by Human Rights Watch on toture and ill treatment on detainees under the Bush administration just came out, naming and establishing the responsibility of high-ranked officials in the commission of what ammounts to war crime .

We shall like to highlight the appendix, focusing on legal proceedings in foreign countries regarding US detainees treatment (France, Germany, Spain...) and remind everyone that an Spanish Journalist, Jose Couso, was killed by US troops in Baghdad in April 8th  2003;US authorities  blocked all attempts by Spanish  judicial authorities to investigate his death

Here is the slightly reduced press release and access to the report:

Getting Away with Torture

The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainee

The report,  Getting away with torture, presents substantial information warranting criminal investigations of Bush and senior administration officials, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and CIA Director George Tenet, for ordering practices such as “waterboarding,” the use of secret CIA prisons, and the transfer of detainees to countries where they were tortured.