Free National Movement (FNM) Chairman Darron Cash has submitted a report to the International Secretariat of Amnesty International, alleging the Christie administration has violated his human rights.
Cash charged that the government has violated several articles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The ICCPR is rooted in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, he noted.
In one of the documents he released in relation to his Amnesty International complaint, Cash said, "I am taking this significant step of bringing the issues and concerns enumerated below to the attention of the international community because, sadly, I am not confident that I can expect due process from the agencies of our government that are presently involved.
"More specifically, I am concerned about the health and independence of several of our key institutions which I believe have been influenced and remain severely tainted by the heavy hand of political interference.
"The compromised state of our institutions -- especially the top levels of the Royal Bahamas Police Force -- is feared to be so great that many of us in the political opposition wonder whether we can expect justice and fair play in our own country."
Cash's complaint came one month after police showed up at his Cable Beach home and seized his cell phone and laptops as part of a probe into alleged leaks of confidential information from Bank of The Bahamas (BOB).
He told The Nassau Guardian last week that police returned the items within days.
In his document to the international organization concerned with the protection of human rights, Cash lays out the history of the BOB controversy.
He meticulously lays out allegations made by The Punch newspaper about the financial health of the bank. The allegations relate to fraud and mismanagement, all claims BOB has repeatedly denied.
"The Bahamian people wanted to know, were the allegations true?" Cash wrote to Amnesty International.
"However, the government said and did absolutely nothing about getting to the bottom of the underlying veracity of the substance of the leaks. That is why the general public felt The Punch stories had merit."
He also noted in his complaint that after The Punch stories he began to call for a full investigation into the allegations.
Cash claimed the warrant the police officers possessed was signed by a justice of the peace, a religious preacher Cash said had no legal training.
He said by the time he went to court a week later after taking legal action, he determined that the damage "from an excessively aggressive police force had already been done and they would have done as they pleased with the confiscated instruments -- irrespective of whatever representations they might make to the court about limiting the scope of searches".
"I had also decided that the most appropriate way for me to fight this egregious violation of my right to free speech would be to bring this matter to the attention of members of the international human rights community -- Amnesty International -- in addition to waging a domestic fight for legislative reform," Cash says in the complaint.
"It is important to note that almost one month after this government's stunning abuse of power by treacherously bringing me as a political party chairman into a matter in which I was not connected, it should be clear that the police have taken no further action.
"Moreover, they have said nothing. Ongoing investigation or not, I assert that they have said nothing because they found nothing related to their Bank of The Bahamas investigation, and they have nothing because there was nothing there."
Cash said in a statement to the media yesterday that he will submit hard copies of the full text of the two documents released.
He said the "preliminary narratives" outlined in the documents will be further amplified in subsequent meetings and reports with the agencies to whom they are submitted.

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