(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The London-based independent organization of health professionals also urged the ambassador to do everything to ensure that the detained doctors and nurses have “access to lawyers, relatives and medical treatment, and that any confessions obtained under torture are not admitted as evidence.”
Medact chair, Frank Boulton, said that he has written twice before in March and in June raising the same issues about the mistreatment but had still received no reply.
Boulton said “Though it has been reported that some have been released and others moved to a civilian prison, it is unacceptable that any health professionals are prevented from carrying out their duty to care for all sick and injured, whoever they may be”.
“It is even more unacceptable that health workers should be mistreated for doing so,” he said about the harrowing crackdown on medical staff in Bahrain that is seen revealing the lengths to which the regime's security forces are prepared to go to quash pro-democracy protests.
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