“The regime in Bahrain has gone too far in targeting the nursing and medical professions. Medical and nursing personnel have been deprived from doing their humanitarian job and some have even been arrested for doing just that,” Al Wefaq National Islamic Society in Bahrain stated, marking international nurses day.
Al Wefaq said the continuous detention of the nurse Ibrahim Aldemestani, a former secretary for Bahrain Nursing Society, is a blatant proof of the size of official targeting on this profession. Aldemestani is detained along with Dr. Ali Alekri, a Bahraini paediatric orthopaedic surgeon.
Medics in Bahrain are still being subjected to official intimidation and questioning. They face fabricated accusations and lengthy sentences for practicing their job, despite the expected vengeful consequences, when treating the wounded protesters in 2011.
Al Wefaq pointed out, “Dissolving the Nursing Society in March 2010 reflects the official desire to contain civil society activism.” Al Wefaq added, “The regime is depriving these establishments from contributing to the development of society in order to maintain its control under a police-state.”
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