DoctorsInChains.org http://www.doctorsinchains.org Standing in solidarity with the doctors in Bahrain Fri, 11 May 2012 10:13:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Background http://www.doctorsinchains.org/?p=1 http://www.doctorsinchains.org/?p=1#comments Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:01:15 +0000 Admin http://dedicated84.tchmachines.com/~doctorsi/?p=1

Continue reading »]]> This site has been setup to raise awareness about and show solidarity for the 20 health workers in Bahrain, who were:

  • arrested by masked gunmen without showing warrants;
  • tortured;
  • forced to sign confessions under duress;
  • given an unfair military trial;
  • sentenced from between 5 years up to 15 years in prison.

 

 

Their crime? There’s a long list of charges which are listed here. But it appears that the reality is the Bahrani government are attempting to silence any of the medics who witnessed first hand the injuries inflicted by government security forces and are likely to speak out about what they have seen (many of them having spoken to the media before they were arrested).

Read some of the personal testimonies of what happened to the doctors here:

There are also 3 medics in prison, who were tried separately and sentenced to 3 years in prison. One of them is Younis Ashoori who is seriously ill and in severe pain. Please read about their cases here.

 

The medics are requesting the following:

  1. All charges should be dropped.
  2. All future court hearings shoulds be observed by the United Nations to ensure its conforms to standards of a fair trial.
  3. All violations of humans rights, kidnapping and mistreatment especially torture need to be investigated as do those who were directly involved.
  4. The medics should be reinstated to their jobs and fairly compensated.

 

What Really Happened
Warning: this video contains graphic footage of injuries.

See more videos here.

You can help the medics get the fair treatment they deserve. Please first learn more about the situation on this site, then sign this peition for the medics in prison and sign this petition for the medics on trial, write to your government to ask them to put pressure on the Bahraini government to drop these ludicrous charges and to free the medics in prison without delay, and then go and ask your friends on colleagues to do the same. It is only when ordinary people start to care and take action that the world will ever change.

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