Solidarity Center Report: Bahraini Medics, Patients Persecuted in Ongoing Repression
Friday, April 12, 2013
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Sick or injured Bahrainis risk prison or even death when they go to a hospital,
said Rula Al-Saffar, president of the Bahrain Nursing Society. Ongoing
repression in Bahrain in the wake of the 2011 pro-democracy protests has
resulted in the “militarization of hospitals,” she said. Al-Saffar was in
Washington, D.C., this week to meet with members of Congress and policymakers
and urge them to demand Bahrain abide by international laws regarding
patients’ rights. Read the full Solidarity Center interview with Al-Saffar at
the Solidarity Center website.
- photo: Rula Al-Saffar (left) and Jehan Matooq; photo courtesy Solidarity
Center