(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Nada Dhaif, who used to attend to protest-related injuries at Salmaniya, the largest hospital in the Bahraini capital of Manama, was arrested during a regime-ordered attack on her house on March 19.
She was sentenced during a Thursday trial, which saw 19 other doctors also being issued five-to-15-year prison terms for the same charges.
“It was 03:00 a.m., when they broke into my house. I was taken away blindfolded and handcuffed. I didn’t know that they were security forces,” she said.
“They were in civilians clothes. So, I thought I was actually kidnapped,” she said.
Dhaif said, “I was thinking that I was being taken to an unknown place. Later on, I came to know that they were from the Central Investigation Department (CID).”
“Immediately after I was taken away…I was treated with beating and cursing.” She said the torturers had even touched her face, using ‘electrocuters.’
“I was crying and I lost consciousness two or three times during this time in the military clinic.”
Dhaif said, while detention, she was only allowed very limited or excessively-belated controlled contact with her family, while completely denied access to her lawyer. The regime forces also prevented her from using the bathroom or shower for a long time span.
Bahrainis have been holding the peaceful rallies since mid-February, demanding an end to the Al Khalifa’s over-40-year-long rule over the Persian Gulf island.
Scores of people have been killed and hundreds more arrested in a brutal Manama-ordered and Riyadh-backed crackdown in the country, which hosts a huge American military installation for the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf.
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