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Bahrain jails 20 doctors for up to 15 years 'for treating protestors'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... stors.html

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The doctors, who denied the charges, were among dozens of medical staff arrested during protests led by the island's Shi'ite majority earlier this year demanding an end to sectarian discrimination and a greater say in government.
Bahrain's Sunni Muslim rulers quashed the protests in March, with the help of troops from fellow Sunni neighbours Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. At least 30 people were killed, hundreds wounded and more than 1,000 detained - mostly Shi'ites - in the crackdown.
The doctors were charged with stealing medicine, stockpiling weapons and occupying a hospital during the unrest and in addition were jailed for forcibly occupying a hospital, spreading lies and false news, withholding treatment, inciting hatred of Bahrain's rulers and calling for their overthrow.
"We were shocked by the verdicts because we were expecting the doctors would be proved innocent of the crime of occupying the Salmaniya medical complex," defence lawyer Mohsen al-Alawi said, adding the hearing had lasted no more than 10 minutes.
The doctors say the charges were invented by the authorities to punish medical staff for treating people who took part in anti-government protests.

I was listening to the radio this morning they also tortured the doctors to force them to sign confessions. I thought that doctors were always impartial. Forcing them to go underground will mean that the government really should not have an embassy here.

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