Moroccan Inmate Dies of Brain Hemorrhage in Bahrain Prison Amid Transfer Plans

Last Wednesday, the Moroccan embassy in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, revealed the death of a Moroccan citizen who was incarcerated in Bahrain, a death caused by a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. More precisely, he would have died on the way, between the prison and the hospital, where they had started to take him to receive the necessary care. But the cerebral attack took place in prison.

The Moroccan embassy in Bahrain does not reveal much about this case. Neither the reason for his incarceration, nor the overall duration of his imprisonment, nor the time he has already served... It only states that he had been sentenced to "a custodial sentence for acts of a criminal nature". The fog therefore.

On the other hand, the embassy is willing to reveal what it has done for this Moroccan citizen: it would have requested a pardon for the benefit of the deceased, according to the procedures in force, and in parallel its services would have contacted the Ministry of the Interior of Bahrain so that he could finish his sentence in Morocco. His transfer to Morocco was in fact almost imminent. Or, as the embassy says: The transfer procedure was being followed by the embassy services, in coordination with the Moroccan Ministry of Justice.

Several humanitarian visits would also have been made by the embassy services before the Moroccan prisoner passed away on Tuesday.