AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): The son of jailed Bahraini opposition leader Hassan Mushaima announced that he would carry on with his hunger strike and sit-in outside Bahrain’s London embassy until his father receives “adequate medical treatment” including cancer screenings.
Ali Mushaima wrote in a Twitter post on Saturday that his father had “received his medicine (after much suffering and delay)”.
However, the authorities failed to grant him access to “proper tests” as well as an oncologist and other specialists for his long list of illnesses.
The 70-year-old detainee is a cancer survivor and requires a PET scan every six months. He also suffers from erratic blood pressure, diabetes, urinary-tract irritation and gout.
“My father needs to be seen by specialists immediately as his last cancer scan was in September 2016. He doesn’t know whether his cancer has returned or not,” Ali explained.
The London-based activist started his hunger strike on August 1 over his father’s ill-treatment in detention, which involved restrictions to health care, family visits and access to books.
Hassan Mushaima is serving a life sentence for his role in Bahrain’s 2011 popular uprising.
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source : Lualua TV
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12 August 2018
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Ali Mushaima to carry on with hunger strike until his father receives ‘adequate’ medical treatment
The son of jailed Bahraini opposition leader Hassan Mushaima announced that he would carry on with his hunger strike and sit-in outside Bahrain’s London embassy until his father receives “adequate medical treatment” including cancer screenings.