Tagi Al Maidan is seen in this family handout photo taken in 2012 in the town of Budaiya in northwest Bahrain, as provided to Reuters on July 22, 2013. REUTERS-Family Handout via Reuters
Special Report: In Bahrain, A U.S. Prisoner's Dilemma -- Yara Bayoumy, Reuters
(Reuters) - Amina al-Maidan was asleep in her family's apartment in the Gulf state of Bahrain last October when masked policemen arrived at about 2am searching for her son, Tagi.
"They didn't show me any papers or arrest warrants," said Maidan, a Shi'ite Muslim who lives in the village of Sanabis. "They didn't know what he was wanted for. It all happened so fast. I was thinking is this real or not. Am I dreaming?"
The police woke Tagi al-Maidan with a kick. "Get up! Come with us!" one officer shouted.
The young man was blindfolded, cuffed and driven to an undisclosed location where, he says, he was ordered to stand on one leg for four hours. He says he was beaten repeatedly as threats were made to rape his mother and sisters until he confessed, falsely he says, to attending a memorial for a dead protester and throwing a stone at a burning police vehicle.
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