THE GUARDIAN: Medical workers targeted because they have evidence of security force atrocities, claims US-based human rights groupBahraini authorities have conducted a systematic campaign of attacks and arrests against medical workers who treated injured protesters during months of unrest in the Gulf kingdom, according to a US-based medical group.
Physicians for Human Rights claims doctors and nurses have been targeted because they have "evidence of atrocities committed by the authorities, security forces and riot police" in the crackdown on Shia dissent in the Sunni-ruled island nation, which has been placed under martial law.
The report by the group is the second to accuse Bahrain's authorities of abuses in the medical system. Earlier this month, the international humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders called Bahrain's hospitals "places to be feared" and claimed officials were arresting protesters who sought treatment. » | Associated Press | Friday, April 22, 2011
