New victim: Man wounded with 17 splinters of a shotgun bullets in Malikia
Alwasat News –
Young Abdullah Hassan (18 years) was wounded with 17 splinters of the shotgun bullets, after fired by riot police on Tuesday evening at Malikia village in Bahrain. He is still receiving treatment at Salmanyia Medical Complex SMC and his status has been described as stable. His brother told Alwasat News the details of the incident, saying:
«I have sent him to buy bread for me, but he took a long time to return and his clothes were full of blood and when I asked him he said that riot police had fired their bullets indiscriminately on all people out there, what led to my injury». He added: «My brother was wounded by 17 shrapnel in different parts of his body and I have taken him to a private hospital which refused to provide him with medical treatment, and then I had to take him to the emergency room of Salmaniya Medical Complex where they have tried to extract the shrapnel from his body, but they are waiting to get a vacant bed for him before they start extracting the shrapnel».
And he added: «We were surprised when security personnel came to the emergency room, and they started their investigation and Interrogation with my brother and they have told him that they will accompanies him until he is treated and then they will transfer him to the police centre at rotor 17 for Interrogation and later will he be sent to the public prosecutor to decide on the subject». He said «my brother does not have any link to security incidents or confrontations, and he has just been discharged from hospital after having a surgery and it is therefore difficult for him to move and usually he sits with his friends near the house». In conclusion, the brother of the victim said: «I call the Interior Ministry to find out who was behind firing the shotgun bullets on my brother, especially because there were no security confrontations at that time, and I hope my brother will not be detained because he is not related to security incidents not now and not ever, his record is an evidence of the truth of what I’m saying. I hope that this issue is closed in the soonest so that he can come back home».
In the same context, the people of Malikia stressed that there was no security confrontation at the time of the incident, but they were surprised to see the spread of many anti-riot police over the past week in the village, because of the continuing surveillance of the village of Karzakan.
http://www.alwasatnews.com/2778/news/read/403243/1.html
Shotgun injured was not provided with medical treatment at military hospital
In the latest news about the shotgun injured Hussein Al-Sahlawi, His lawyer Mohammed Al-Tajer said that «The security authorities transferred the injured last Thursday from the military hospital to the detention centre, based on the willingness of the injured», pointing out that «at first he was taken to the detention centre, and then the officials were embarrassed to keep him in detention and they have given orders to take him to the military hospital for treatment, but he was kept in the hospital without being treated, with many restrictions upon them restrictions on his movements and family visits to him, so he preferred the to return to prison when he sensed the lack of the feasibility of staying in the hospital ».
For his part, said the father of the injured: «there is no minimum feasibility or benefit of my son staying at the hospital, he was there but without receiving treatment, he was ill on Wednesday with a pain in the head, chest and throat, and he demanded treatment and medicines, but received nothing. Therefore, I was forced to get him medicines from an external Pharmacy».
68 splinters are still settling in the body of Hussein Al-Sahlawi
Father of «Karzakan shotgun’s injured» (Hussein Ali al-Sahlawi, 25 years old), demanded the Interior Ministry to release his son, saying that «my son is innocent and has not done any act of sabotage nor attacked on anyone».
The father of the injured, Ali Hassan al-Sahlawi: added that his son « is currently in the military hospital, but his presence there is useless, because the doctor told him there is no treatment for his case, and they cannot extract the splinters from his body, as there are 68 splinters settled in various parts of his body where only 2 splinters were extracted (…)».
The father added that «My son is not provide with any health services, he lays in a general ward and not a private room, and even nutritious liquid is not given him, as well the medicines and capsules». He also called: «If the hospital is not able to treat my son Hussein, they should allow him to leave, so that I can send him abroad, where he can have treatment (…)».
It is noteworthy that the Public Prosecutor issued a resolution on Monday sentenced the injured man for 45 days pending investigation, and he was evacuated from Salmaniya medical complex to a police station in Hamad Town, and then was transferred to the military hospital for treatment.
The victim’s father said in an interview earlier with the «Alwasat news», that his son «was going to greet his grandmother who has returned from Syria in Karzakan, and on the evening of Sunday before last, after having stayed with her for some time, he came out of his grandmother’s house, and was received by the riot troop’s live ammunition, and they have shot him 3 shots out of which 70 splinters have settled in his body».
And the father said that his son «is not involved in any security incidents or confrontations, he goes out every morning to work as a driver in a private company, and in the afternoons he comes back to change his clothes and goes to play soccer with neighborhood young people in the rotor 17 in Hamad Town, then back to prayer then goes to sit down with young people in the same neighborhood, and at 10pm comes back to the house and asks me to wake him up the morning ».
Source: http://www.alwasatnews.com/2759/news/read/387937/1.html
Bahrain: De facto closure of the Bahrain Nursing Society
Posted on 2010/03/26
The Bahrain Nursing Society, founded in 1991 and located in the State Hospital in Salmaniya, was de facto closed on 23 March 2010, allegedly by the Ministry of Health.
Further Information
The Bahrain Nursing Society focuses its work on defending the rights of its members – who are mainly nurses – working in the health sector. It has a license to operate and functions within the realms of the law.
On 23 March 2010, just before 7am, the Society’s administrator went to the Bahrain Nursing Society’s office and discovered that the locks had been changed.
According to information received, the de facto closure of the Bahrain Nursing Society is directly related to a reception scheduled to take place in the office on 23 March to welcome the release, on 21 March 2010, of Mr Ibrahim Al-Dimistani, the Secretary-General of the Society. Ibrahim Al-Dimistani had been arrested on 17 March 2010 for “hiding and harbouring a fugitive”, under Article 256 of the Penal Code. The “fugitive” was a protester who was badly injured during a demonstration in the village of Kazakan on 14 March 2010. Ibrahim Al-Dimistani provided him with first aid and recommended him to go to Salmaniya hospital for further treatment.
This is not the first time that the Bahrain Nursing Society has been targeted. In August 2008, the office of the public prosecutor charged Ms Rola Al-Saffar, president of the Bahrain Nursing Society, and Ibrahim Al-Dimistani, with defamation and insulting officials from the Ministry of Health. However, in April 2009, a judge acquitted Rola Al-Saffar and Ibrahim Al-Dimistani of the charges against them.
The 2010 Annual General Meeting of the Nursing Society unanimously elected its new board members. However, the Ministry of Social Development has refused to recognise the new board.
As a direct result of the activities carried out by the Society, including a campaign to improve the working conditions of nurses in hospitals, the Ministry of Social Development also tried to take over the Society. In 2008, the Ministry appointed an acting manager for the Bahrain Nursing Society in an attempt to cancel a protest organised by the Society at that time. However, members of the Society refused to co-operate with the newly-appointed manager.
Front Line believes that the de facto closure of the Bahrain Nursing Society is directly related to the Society’s human rights activities. Front Line also considers this de facto closure as well as the harassment, intimidation and denial of registration of human rights organisations such as the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights as an infringement of the rights to freedoms of association, assembly and expression enshrined in Bahrain national law and the international human rights treaties and standards which Bahrain is party to.
This last event takes place at a time when the government of Bahrain is trying to show the international community its commitment to human rights. Front Line would like to remind the Bahrain government of its voluntary pledge, made during Front Line’s mission to Bahrain from 11 to 14 January 2010, to protect and promote human rights at national level.
Bahrain medics detained for aiding man after anti-government protest
26 March 2010
Amnesty International has called on the Bahraini authorities to account for the arrest and brief detention of two medical workers, apparently for helping a man who had been wounded during an anti-government protest this month.
Ibrahim al-Demistani, who works at al-Salmaniya hospital in Manama and ‘Abdel-’Aziz Shabeeb, a nurse in a private comapny, were arrested after they helped Hussain ‘Ali Hassan al-Sahlawi, who had been shot and left unconscious by a Bahraini security official in Karzakan on the evening of 14 March.
Both men were detained at a police station in Hamad until Sunday, when they were released on bail on charges of “cover up” and “abusing their medical profession”.
Hussain ‘Ali Hassan al-Sahlawi is reported to still be receiving treatment for his injuries. Under constant police guard, he is said to have been charged with participating in an illegal protest. He has been allowed access to his family and a lawyer.
According to media reports, the Health Ministry evicted members of the Bahrain Nursing Society (BNS) from their premises on Monday, to stop them from holding a party to celebrate the release of Ibrahim al-Demistani, who is also the BNS board secretary.
In a letter to Bahrain’s Minister of Interior on Tuesday, Amnesty International requested clarification regarding any steps taken by the authorities to investigate the circumstances in which Hussain ‘Ali Hassan al-Sahlawi was shot in the view of reports that he was unarmed and posing no threat to the security official who fired a shotgun at him.
The organization also request clarification regarding the current legal status of Ibrahim al-Demistani and ‘Abdel-’Aziz Shabeeb and the grounds on which they are facing prosecution for providing medical treatment to an injured man.
The shooting of Hussain ‘Ali Hassan al-Sahlawi happened only minutes after scores of demonstrators in Karzakan had been burning tyres in protest against the government. The protests were timed to take advantage of the international spotlight on Bahrain while it was hosting the Formula One Grand Prix motor race of 2010.
These and other protests which have taken place recently in predominantly-Shi’a villages are part of an on-going movement led by radical Shi’a groups against what they believe is government discrimination against the Shi’a majority population.
Bahraini security forces are said to have been deployed in response to the protest and to have begun a search for demonstrators after they ran away and sought refuge in local houses.
According to reports received by Amnesty International, Hussain ‘Ali Hassan al-Sahlawi had not taken part in the protest and was shot as he was getting into his car outside his grandfather’s house.
Action Alert: Bahrain – Bahraini authorities close down Nursing Union
Bahrain authorities close BNS after firing live ammunition at unarmed demonstrators.
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Islamic Human Rights Commission
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25 March 2010
Action Alert: Bahrain – Bahraini authorities close down Nursing Union
Contents
1. Summary
2. Background
3. Action required
4. Sample letters
1. Summary
According to the Bahraini based HAQ movement, an NGO, on the 23rd of March 2010 Bahraini authorities closed down the trade union, Bahrain Nursing Society (BNS). A member of the trade union, Ibrahim al Demastani a nurse, was released on bail after spending a week imprisoned. Al Demastani administered first aid to Husain Ali Hasan al Sahlawi, who was accused of violently demonstrating and subsequently shot at by Special Forces. Another defendant Abdul Aziz Shabib, X-Ray Technician, was also arrested and later released on bail. Both individuals were accused of abusing their professional positions and hiding a wanted man.
Mohammed al Tajer, lawyer for the accused argues that the charges against the two healthcare professionals are baseless. Al Sahlawi was charged in the evening whereas al Demastani and Shabib were charged in the morning of the same day therefore al Sahlawi was not even wanted by the authorities and so the charge that the two defendants were hiding a wanted man is completely unfounded.
2. Background
Husain Ali Hasan al-Sahlawi was shot with live ammunition after being mistaken as a protestor. Al Sahlawi claims that he was not part of any demonstration. He was returning home after visiting his Grandfather in Karazakan village when Special Forces fired live ammunition at him and as a result he received numerous injuries. Special Forces fired buck shot shells at the crowd. Buck shots contains significant amounts of metal pieces which spray out in all directions once shot, buck shots are normally used for hunting small animals.
Al Demestani was at home when al Sahlawi approached him for help. Al Demestani instinctively followed nursing ethics and administered first aid and then sent al Sahlawi to the hospital. Al Sahlawi had numerous injuries from the buck shot, some of the bullets are in such dangerous areas that they cannot be removed.
The Bahrain Nursing Society defended al Demastani and asserted that he was carrying out his ethical duties and that even in a state of war, healthcare professionals are obligated to treat the enemy if they are wounded. It is because of this position
which is believed to have led to their closure by the authorities.
Bahrain is contravening the following treaties which it has ratified: Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, New York, 16 December 1966, as this covenant allows freedom of assembly without risk of incurring lethal force by the state security. The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, New York, 16 December 1966, has also been contravened since this covenant recognises the right of trade unions to function independently.
Bahraini authorities have once again expressed their complete disregard for human rights as well as undermining the ethics and principles of vital trade unions such as the BNS.
3. Action required
Write to the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression requesting them to address the human rights violations committed by the Bahraini government.
4. Sample letters
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Mr. Frank La Rue
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Dear Mr. La Rue,
Re: Bahrain – Nursing Union closed after Special forced fire live ammunition at civilian demonstrators
I am deeply concerned after reading reports by the Bahraini based HAQ movement, an NGO, on the 23rd of March 2010, Bahraini authorities closed down the trade union, Bahrain Nursing Society (BNS). A member of the trade union, Ibrahim al Demastani a nurse, was released on bail after spending a week imprisoned. Al Demastani administered first aid to Husain Ali Hasan al Sahlawi, who was accused of violently demonstrating and subsequently shot at by Special Forces. Another defendant Abdul Aziz Shabib, X-Ray Technician, was also arrested and later released on bail. Both individuals were accused of abusing their professional positions and hiding a wanted man.
Mohammed al Tajer, lawyer for the accused argues that the charges against the two healthcare professionals are baseless. Since al Sahlawi was charged in the evening whereas al Demastani and Shabib were charged in the morning of the same day therefore al Sahlawi was not even wanted by the authorities and so the charge that the two defendants were hiding a wanted man is completely unfounded.
Al Demestani was at home when al Sahlawi approached him for help. Al Demestani instinctively followed nursing ethics and administered first aid and then sent al Sahlawi to the hospital. Al Sahlawi had numerous injuries from the buck shot, some of the bullets are in such dangerous areas that they cannot be removed.
The Bahrain Nursing Society defended al Demastani and asserted that he was carrying out his ethical duties and that even in a state of war, healthcare professionals are obligated to treat the enemy if they are wounded. It is because of this position
which is believed to have led to their closure by the authorities.
Bahrain is contravening the following treaties which it has ratified: Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, New York, 16 December 1966, as this covenant allows freedom of assembly without risk of incurring lethal force by the state security. The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, New York, 16 December 1966, has also been contravened since this covenant recognises the right of trade unions to function independently.
Please address these issues urgently as this is a grave violation of human rights and an infringement to ethical practices that are for the benefit of the whole society.
I look forward to your response on this urgent matter.
Yours sincerely,
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Arbitrary closure of a nurses’ trade-union!
The BNS intended to organise a meeting on that day, in solidarity with Mr. Ibrahim Al-Dimistani, trade-unionist, Secretary of the BNS, and recognised as a “certified instructor” by the Organisation of American First Aid and the Red Cross.
Mr. Al-Dimistani provided first aid to a protester wounded with live ammunition and fission bullets during a protest in the village of Kazakan on March 14. He then advised him to undergo a medical check-up in Salmaniya hospital, where he was taken care of the day after by Mr. Abdul-Aziz Shabeeb, who carried out an x-ray examination.
Messrs. Al-Dimistani and Shabeeb were subsequently both arrested on March 17 for “hiding and harbouring a fugitive”, under Article 256 of the Penal Code. They were released on March 21 on a 100 BD bail, but charges against them are still pending.
The Observatory calls on the Bahraini authorities to immediately re-open the BNS, as the de facto closure manifestly aims at preventing the union from carrying human rights activities.
The Observatory also urges the authorities to put an end to any kind of harassment – including at the judicial level – against Messrs. Al-Dimistani and Shabeeb as well as against all human rights defenders and to refrain from hindering activities of promotion and protection of human rights, in line with the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as international and regional human rights instruments ratified by Bahrain.
· OMCT: Delphine Reculeau, + 41 22 809 49 39
http://www.fidh.org/Arbitrary-closure-of-a-nurses-trade-union
Authorities revert to live ammunition
HAQ: Movement of Liberties and Democracy – Bahrain
Authorities revert to live ammunition (Buck shots) to suppress citizens and participants in public protests
The Human Rights Bureau of the “HAQ” movement expresses its deep concerns about the increased tension shown by the Bahraini authorities in dealing with the growing wave of popular protests in the villages and cities. These public activities are demanding the release of detainees of popular protests associated with the files of sectarian discrimination, change of demography program, improve the economic status and democratic reform in the country.
While HAQ movement deplores the security authorities for the use of live ammunition and collective punishment to suppress demonstrators as well as those in the location of protests, it demands the following:
- Fulfilling State and hospitals obligations to the citizens and residents to provide the necessary medical treatment of injuries of any kind or cause, without politicization of the profession of medicine by security directives. This includes the provision of the required treatment for Husain Ali Hassan Al-Sahlawi and not expose him or his family, during the handling of any investigation, to any form of pressure to coerce him to confess what he did not do.
- Abiding by the United Nations Charter with regard to treatment of the wounded and injured during popular incidents and not to hinder any attempts to rescue or treatment of any victims of the protests, whether they are present in the areas of protest or the protesters themselves.
- Cease collective punishment and siege of villages and subjecting them to chemical suffocating tear gas and sound incendiary bombs.
- Abiding by the principles of fairness trials and investigations and the right of the accused in the presence of their lawyers before starting any investigation involving them.
- Forming an independent inquiry commission to look into allegations of collective punishment and the use of live ammunition (Buck shots) against citizens, bring those responsible for such decisions to a fair trial and compensate the affected people and injured
- The unconditional release of all detainees in the recent events and cleansing prisons of activists as an initial entry to solutions of files causing the current aggravating situation in Bahrain.
Suspending the shotgun injured man for 45 days is illegal
Lawyer Mohammed Al-Tajer
Lawyer Mohammed Al-Tajer said that suspending his client Hussain al-Sahlawi, the shotgun victim, for 45 days pending investigation without informing him is ”illegal”.
Al-Tajer pointed out that the prosecutor has not issued an order of suspension during the first investigation meeting and did not inform him of the order of suspension, while has not specified in the same time, whether the accused will be suspended for a week or 45 days pending investigation.
On the other hand, Al-Tajer said that article 147 of the Law of Criminal Procedures of 2002 indicates that the prosecution has the right to issue an order of imprisonment for 7 days from the time of receipt of the accused, and only in the case of crimes with imprisonment punishment, if the prosecutors saw a need to imprison the accused they must present him before the expiry of the period to the Minor Court judge to decide after hearing the statements of prosecution and the accused to either imprison him for not more than 45 days or release him on bail or without it.
He added “and the term of imprisonment for a period of 45 days is for offenses pressing external security, but the crime of the accused is related to interior security, as per the above-mentioned article, the prosecution has no right to extend the period of investigation except by a decision of a judge of the Minor Court, while the prosecution has the right to detention for one week only “.
Al-Tajer denounced that the general prosecutors usually imprison the defendants while continuing investigation and request renewal of periods of detention without the presence of incriminating evidence” while “the Court releases the defendants at the first meeting as the collection of evidence is going on”.
Meanwhile, the father of the Shotgun injured ”Ali Al-Sahlawi” said that his son had gone by order of the General Prosecution two days ago, on 22 March from Salmaniya Medical Complex, where he was lying after his surgery, to the police station at Hamad Town for investigation.
He said ”By the order of the Minister of Interior Hussain was evacuated Monday night from Hamad Town police station to the military hospital”, denounced the transfer of his son without informing him.
Al-Tajer denounced ”Continuing the investigation with the accused without informing him”, ”explaining that he did not attend the later investigation meetings after the first one in Salmaniya Medical Complex”. He pointed out that the crowd charges are usually investigated with the defendants without informing their lawyers.
The injured is now lying in a shared room under close monitoring by the police within the room, Al-Tajer pointed out that the term of detention of crowd crime is up to 6 months.
And about the health of the injured, his father said it has improved, but denied knowledge of whether doctors has removed any new splinters from his body and again reiterated that the injured is still walking in an abnormal manner.
BCHR: Security Attempts to Drain the Medical and Nursing Humane Profession from its Ethics
Arrest of a Unionist and an X-ray Specialist for their Treatment of the Person Wounded with Shotgun Bullets without Security Consent
19 March 2010
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its great concern for the serious escalation approached by the Bahraini authorities in dealing with the public protests witnessed in the villages and areas of Bahrain, in protest against the violations practiced by the Authority through the Special Forces’ use of live ammunition against the protestors in these peaceful demonstrations, as well as arresting two nurses; one who is a human rights defeder, due to their contribution in treating one of the victims of these public protests.
On 14 March 2010, the Special Forces forces made up of foreign mercenaries suppressed one of the protests in the village of Karzakan by using live ammo and fission bullets known locally as the shotgun bullet – and which is usually used to hunt birds and small animals – and one of the victims of these protests was the young Hussein Al-Sahlawi, 25 years old, who was shot several times at a close distance when he was leaving his grandfather’s house in the village of Karzakan – which left almost 70 splinters all over his body. Due to his poor condition and the many scattered wounds and his continuous bleeding due to those splinters, he turned to the house of the known unionist and vice-president of the Nursing Society Ibrahim Al-Dimistani, and who carried out an initial treatment and stopped the bleeding, and who told him to immediately head to the hospital to have the tests, necessary x-ray and required treatment taken, and this led to the arrest of Al-Dimistani and the x-ray specialist in Salmaniya Hospital Abdul-aziz Shabeeb on charges relating to nursing and hospitalizing an injured in security cases without a prior consent or informing the Ministry of Interior.
In a statement made by the General Director of the Police Directorate of the Northern Governorate on 15 March 2010, he admitted using live ammo by the Special Forces to suppress the protests, he even added that the people who break the administrative custom procedures when entering a patient and treating him in the hospital will be questioned, emphasizing that covering up for a wanted person is considered a crime. However, the injured person was not wanted for any security or judicial body when he turned for treatment; all the charges against him later were related to assembling and do not require such a violent reaction or firing shots at him. Instead of the security apparatuses being questioned for the crime of using live ammo against peaceful and innocent individuals, the accusation, conviction or questioning is pointed at the people who carried out their human obligation with ethical proficiency and professionalism required by their profession.
Individuals from the Bahrain Human Rights Society attempted to visit the injured; however they prevented them from doing so. Worthy of mentioning, the local hospitals have orders of the necessity of informing the security apparatuses before initiating any treatment in protest demonstrations, which is contrary to the requirement of their humane career. Due to the state of fear felt by the victims of violations practiced by the Special Forces, the majority of victims of those demonstrations and protests do not go to hospitals to receive the right treatment, and only satisfy themselves with house treatments or some folk remedies, which poses significant risk on their health condition.
The unionist, Al-Dimistani, is considered one of the known human rights defender of the rights of the nursing career in the country. He was previously brought forth for investigation in past periods due to his activity in the Bahrain Nursing Society and his hard work towards improving the conditions of nurses. He has also been harassed due to his union work, where the Public Prosecution had charged him with libel and insult of officials in the Ministry of Health, and he was released with ensuring the place of his residence until the court acquitted him from this charge later. The Ministry of Social Development dissolved the administrative board of the Nursing Society which he is active in, and appointed a president by the Ministry. However, the general assembly of the Nursing Society refused the decision and fired the president appointed by the Ministry. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights believes that the arrest of Al-Dimistani in this incident comes first among the sequential attempts to restrict him and his activity as a known unionist and to stop his work in the Society and to silence another voice of a known defender for human rights. Secondly, the aim of the arrest of his colleague and him is to threat and intimidate all the doctors and nurses from carrying out their humane role in nursing all the victims away from their political, ethnic, sectarian and religious background without turning to any security or intelligence apparatuses to take permission from them, because that does not fall into the range of the profession of doctors and nurses. The BCHR believes that this security scare against treating the victims and pressurizing the doctors and nurses to report them is a means of transform this humane career practiced by doctors and nurses to security men and informers of security state apparatuses and which is completely contradictory to this humanitarian profession and its ethics.
The villages and areas of Bahrain are witnessing escalating public protests similar to a public uprising due to the Authority’s policy in the continuous arbitrary arrests; torture practiced in prisons; political naturalization to change the demographics; systematic discrimination against the Shiite; bringing mercenary individuals and recruiting them to raid the Bahraini Shiite villages; the increasing level of poverty; rampant corruption among government; the Authority entering as a party in instigating disputes between the Shiite and Sunni; marginalizing the role of the Parliament and further humiliating the loyal representatives of the people in it. Instead of it changing its policy in reforming those outstanding issues that are causing this crisis.
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights demands the following:
1. To immediately release the unionist and human rights activists Ibrahim Al-Dimistani and his colleague the x-ray specialist Mr. Abdul-aziz Shabeeb;
2. to provide all the required medical care to citizen victims of violations away from the prior security consents, and to maintain all the professional and humanitarian standards, and not to bow to any security pressures that could make this profession loose its humanity and ethics;
3. to lift the ban of visiting the victims in the hospital immediately;
4. to stop using firearms and fission bullets to suppress the peaceful protests;
5. to initiate a serious dialogue with the pillars of society and to seriously look into the causes leading to the youth’s participation in those demonstrations instead of the security solutions.
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The news piece about the arrest of Aziz Shabeeb http://www.alwasatnews.com/2750/news/read/382549/1.html
Statement of the Ministry of Interior on the Suppressing the protests in the village of Karzakan http://www.alayam.com/Articles.aspx?aid=10474
http://www.alwasatnews.com/2170/news/read/162480/1.html
http://www.alwasatnews.com/2170/news/read/162480/1.html
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