The Bahraini newspapers published on September 9th an article stating that the Minister of Development and Social Affairs – concerned with monitoring political and human rights societies – dissolved the admin board of the Bahrain Human Rights Society and dismissed its elected president Dr. Abdullah Al-Dirazi and replaced him with an employee in the Ministry, justifying this with the fact that the Society committed a number of violations in which it “limited its activities to one type of citizens solely” in an indication to the Shiite sect which all the political detainees or the detainees of the recent security campaign belong to. This decision comes on the background of the increasing activity of the Society over the past period, in conjunction with the escalating human rights deterioration in the country, and during the threats to suppress liberties and targeting of human rights defenders, and through its independent or joint reports with the Bahrain Coalition for Truth and Justice
