Continued out-pour of protest regarding tortured and imprisoned Bahrain medicals from Irish Medical Establishment

End actions against the medics in Bahrain
May 27, 2011 By admin 5 Comments

Dear Editor,

Recent events in the Kingdom of Bahrain have evidenced violations of the Geneva Conventions, with the arrest of doctors and nursing staff treating persons injured during civil unrest in that country.

The Physicians for Human Rights organisation, together with Médecins Sans Frontières, Amnesty International and others, have called for a cessation of such actions. Latest information reveals these persons are to be put on trial.

Ireland has a direct involvement with the Bahraini authorities, training and advising on healthcare through a medical school involvement in that country, and it is now incumbent to speak out in defence of colleagues who have disappeared and are believed to be in custody.

Readers are encouraged to register their protest through the International Red Cross Committee in Geneva (guardians of the Geneva Conventions and their additional Protocols) or any of the above-mentioned organisations.

John Good,

Centre for the Care of Survivors of Torture,
Dublin 7. …more