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Bahrain King promises freedom, compensation for protesters caught in crackdown

Global Arab Network - - Ayman Khalil

Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:26

Global Arab Network - Bahrain will dismiss charges against some people detained during crackdowns against protests and allow compensation to prisoners abused by security forces, the Gulf nation's king said in a nationally broadcast speech.
In his speech, King Hamad, 61, expressed compassion with the citizens "who were victims of injuries, ill-treatment or death".

"Bahrain has a law that allows victims of ill-treatment to ask for compensation," he said, adding that "the decision to set up the independent fact-finding commission is the best indication of our full commitment to knowing the whole truth and to giving people their rights."

Orders have been issued to the institutions concerned to look promptly into the cases of workers and students who had been dismissed, King Hamad said.

"When we see workers at their places of work and students at their learning institutions, while some other workers are not working and some other students are not studying, we are prompted to look into their situation in order to help them join their colleagues and classmates. Such an accomplishment will benefit the workers, the students, their families and the whole nation. These are our orders to the concerned institutions and they should implement them more quickly," he said.

King Hamad said that the last few months were painful, and even though Bahrainis lived in the same country, some had forgotten about the inevitability of co-existence.

"We must not swerve from our trust and faith in our common future, regardless of the diversity of our sects. Otherwise, we lose our trust in one another as brothers, colleagues and citizens in this beloved country," he said.

"We all grew up on this good land that brings all of us together. Our history testifies that our co-existence has placed our nation among the world's most civilised, open and developed countries. None of us wants to live alone with his sect and to exclude the others. Our success is in our cordial co-existence with its various cultures but with its definite patriotism and civilisation.

Ramadan has contributed to the restoration of the cohesion and pure hearts of Bahrainis and made them recall their traditional interactions, compassion and fraternity that were an integral part of growing up, he said

"This is the best indication of the genuine nature of our people, as well as of the strength of their faith and the depth of their allegiance," King Hamad said.

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