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that security forces had used excessive force, torture and forced confessions in the crackdown. The Bahraini authorities had promised
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improvements as a result. Richard Sollom, the deputy director of the Physicians for Human Rights and an author of the report, who was scheduled to testify on Wednesday at a House hearing in Washington on whether
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Bahrain has adhered to its promises, said that he had become cynical about official Bahraini pledges. “What they’re very good at is rhetoric, not results,” he said in a telephone interview. “Literally, not much has
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changed.” In the 100-year history of tear gas, Mr. Sollom said, “there is no other example where a country has continually assaulted its
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people with this toxic chemical.” The report appeared likely to cause some awkwardness in the Obama administration, which has
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tempered its criticism of the Bahraini government’s repression even while acknowledging the legitimacy of the protesters’ grievances. Bahrain, home to the United States Navy’s Fifth Fleet, which patrols the
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Persian Gulf, is seen as a strategic bulwark against the influence of Iran. Mr. Sollom, who has visited Bahrain three times, said that tear
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gas attacks occurred weekly in some Shiite neighborhoods, and that the lingering smell was so pervasive that some residents
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gave guests gas masks. He also said the Bahrain government had not responded to the group’s request for a breakdown on the exact types
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of tear gas used by the police. Nor has it explained precisely how and where it is obtaining its tear gas, although canisters recovered
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on the street by activists suggest that they come from the United States, France and Brazil. Mr. Sollom noted that the United States had withheld licenses for tear gas exports to Bahrain, which suggests that any American
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tear gas products used there might have been stockpiled before the American restriction, or re-exported from other countries. According to Bahrain Watch, an activist group that has chronicled the government’s weapons
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