As the human rights crisis in Bahrain continues Front Line and other NGOs express their deep concern about the ongoing prosecution and persecution of doctors and nurses who are facing the prospect of prison sentences simply because they treated injured demonstrators during the recent disturbances. Severe sentences have handed down on human rights defenders, including Abdulahadi Al Khawaja who was recently sentenced to life imprisonment.
In no other country in the world have we witnessed doctors and nurses persecuted on such a scale as a result of their legitimate humanitarian actions, says Front Line: 47 members of the medical profession were arrested, several of them reportedly tortured, and all of whom are currently being subjected to an unfair trial. They feel abandoned by the international community.
Please – show your support for these brave men and women – add your name to the open letter to the King of Bahrain via the link below and which will be published in The Guardian and the London Independent this Friday
http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/petitions/bahrainopenletter#sign>
Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards 
July 10, 2011 at 12:00
It’s awful what they did. It’s so unjust it makes you want to scream sometimes!
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