Bahrain Special: Identifying The Tear Gas Companies Who Profit While Bahrainis Suffer and Die

Footage taken after a home was tear-gassed

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Some of the companies exporting tear gas to Bahrain have been identified. There may well be more. In the meantime, however, the corporations below should be shamed of the suffering their products have inflicted. They may want to consider making a public statement regretting their decision to export to a regime flagrantly abusing the human rights of its citizens. They may also want to consider compensating the families of those killed by their tear gas, or making a sizeable donation to the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, to help stop the abusive use of their "non-lethal" products.

Defense Technology / Federal Laboratories

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Tear Gas in Bahrain: Suppression and Suffering Through "Lethality Reduction"

Click here to read article in Arabic. Thanks to مترجِم 14 فبراي for the translation.

Visiting the website of Condor Technologies, a Brazilian "non-lethal" arms company accused this week of exporting tear gas to Bahrain, one is instantly impressed that they have thought very hard about how to present their business. The front page picture asks us to ponder: what on earth is "Lethality Reduction"?

On Sunday in Bahrain, a funeral was held for Abdulali Ali Ahmed, a 73-year man who choked to death in his home from tear gas inhalation. The funeral itself was attacked by police with tear gas.

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