Obama silent while Doctors, Teachers, and Bloggers tortured in Bahrain
In the video at right, Bahraini Dr. Fareeda al-Dallal speaks about her arrest and torture — and the continued detention and upcoming trial of her husband Dr al-Dallal, a prominent physician arrested on March 17 during a military raid at Salmaniyah hospital in Manama. After this interview she was again detained by the regime.
Sunday, Bahrain began a “trial” for 21 opposition leaders, seven of them to be tried in absentia. The trial was suddenly announced on Saturday following public attention on Friday – including an urgent appeal by Amnesty International – when word spread that human rights leader Abdulhadi Alkhawaja had been taken from jail to a hospital for surgery for injuries caused by torture. (Alkhawaja is known to many FDL readers as the father of @angryarabiya)
According to reports received by Amnesty International, when ‘Abdulhadi Alkhawaja was admitted to the Bahrain Defence Force military hospital in al-Riffa’, central Bahrain, around the end of April, he had cracks on his jaw and skull and black marks on his arms, allegedly caused by torture. He was reportedly admitted for six days and had several operations on his head and face. He was hastily returned to prison where he was said to have been tortured again.
Via twitter, Nabeel Rajab, head of the Bajrain Human Rights Center reports that:
The jaw of human rights activist A. Hadi alKhawaja was severely smashed graft was taken from his skull to repair it #bahrain
WL Central: Bahrain repression, intimidation and torture continue