Bahraini death row prisoner pleads with pope to aid his release
by Angela Giuffrida in Rome from World news | The Guardian on (#65DFD)
Exclusive: Mohammed Ramadhan, who alleges he was tortured into confessing to deadly bombing, urges pontiff to act on visit to Gulf state
A former airport security guard who is on death row in Bahrain for a crime he alleges he was tortured into confessing to has urged Pope Francis to call for his release during the pontiff's visit to the Gulf state.
In a letter shared exclusively with the Guardian through the London-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (Bird), Mohammed Ramadhan, who has been in prison for nine years, asked the pontiff to ask the king of Bahrain to release me and reunite me with my family and children".
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