AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Activists are calling attention to Bahraini detainees diagnosed with sickle cell anemia as the world marks the illness’ awareness day on Wednesday.
Bahraini rights campaigner Ebtisam al-Saegh vowed to “continue to support the rights” of the sickle cell prisoners and named nearly twenty men who are currently languishing behind bars while suffering from the disease.
Others have backed calls for Manama to allow the ill prisoners to benefit from its so-called alternative punishment law, which permits judges to free detainees that are unlikely to commit a ‘crime’ in the future.
Sickle cell disease is an inherited genetic abnormality that has many symptoms, including severe anemia and episodes of pain.
It also exposes the patient to a range of complications, most prominently: dizziness, chest pain, heart failure, chronic kidney disease, joint damage as well as stroke or paralysis.
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source : LuaLua TV
Wednesday
19 June 2019
12:41:52 PM
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Activists are calling attention to Bahraini detainees diagnosed with sickle cell anemia as the world marks the illness’ awareness day on Wednesday.