The results of reporting in Bahrain:

Dear Jody,

It was great meeting you and thanks for your e-mails. The eldest son of the tortured man visited the society and I filed his case with full information. I transferred his case to Karama Centre and the doctors will follow it up.

A. Alderazi

Abdulla Alderazi is the Deputy Secretary General of the Bahraim Human Rights Society

Unfortunately I received a phonecall on Friday night from Mohammed who told me that his uncle was now in the IC unit, barely breathing. Mohammed also told me that he had to lie and say that he was from the UN in order to get in to see his uncle. It seems that we may have got to his uncle too late. While this family suffers the pain, which their own country has inflicted on them, all I could do was try to reassure them that at least his uncle was in the right place, and would hopefully have the drugs needed in order to reduce the physical pain. Although the trauma will never find closure.