Also, on the evening of Wednesday, October 15, 2025, Hajj Nasser Hassan Matrouk, the grandfather of the imprisoned child Ali Hussein Ali Nasser Matrouk—detained since August 2024 in connection with five politically-related cases and sentenced to three years in prison—passed away, without being allowed to say farewell to his grandfather or participate in the funeral ceremonies.
In recent days, the child’s family submitted a request to the relevant authorities to allow him to participate in bidding farewell to his grandfather, even for a brief period, or to attend the funeral ceremonies symbolically. However, the authorities did not respond to these humane requests.
Depriving the child of saying goodbye to a close family member constitutes a clear violation of his right to maintain family bonds, as stipulated in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) ratified by the Kingdom of Bahrain. It also reflects a disregard for the psychological and humanitarian considerations that should be observed in the treatment of detained children.
Amal Center for Human Rights and Justice warns of the profound psychological impact this deprivation has on the imprisoned child, especially under harsh detention conditions that do not consider his developmental and psychological needs, and emphasizes that such treatment is part of an extended punitive policy affecting the family’s emotions and increasing their suffering.
The center calls for allowing the child Ali Hussein Matrouk to communicate with his family and receive the necessary psychological support, and for reviewing the prison administration’s policies towards detained children to ensure their human and legal rights are respected, particularly in sensitive family situations such as death and illness