Korour Fenjanchi made the remarks in an interview with the Turkish Hurriyat website.

Mawali disappeared in January 2012. The Bahraini police returned his corpse to his family after 8 days, claiming that he had been drowned in the sea.

Well informed of the al-Khalifa regime’s black record in torturing and killing protestors, Mawali’s family pursued the case with the International Rehabilitation Council of Torture Victims and the Council called the Turkish human rights activists for help.

In response, Fenjanchi, a medical examiner and human rights activist, managed to travel to Bahrain in disguise and could perform an autopsy on Malawi’s corpse and test the samples in Turkey. The results showed that Malawi was killed by electric shock and was unconscious when he was thrown in the sea.

Amnesty International has announced that more than 200 people, arrested as part of the clampdown against Shiite political opposition in Bahrain, are at the risk of being tortured. Around 250 individuals in Bahrain, who are believed to have been detained, are at risk of torture, the group said. Human Rights Watch also accused Bahrain of restricting the travel of rights activists to prevent them from talking about the arrest of opposition members.

The Sunni-dominated government has intensified the crackdown against the Shiite population, arresting dozens of opposition figures on the allegation of planning to topple the government.

“There is a continuous war against all Shiites who are critics of the government,” Nabeel Rajab, the head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights said. Many of the opposition detainees – including religious figures – were tortured and sexually assaulted, he said.

The population of Bahrain is predominantly Shiite. However, the majority group has long complained of being discriminated against by the Sunni-dominated government in obtaining jobs and receiving services.