Al Khalifa, Saud human rights abuse denials, misdirection, mimics that of psychopaths

Bahrain denies abusing female Shi’ite doctors
May 31, 2011

DUBAI – BAHRAIN’S interior ministry on Monday denied claims made to AFP by female Shi’ite doctors that they were abused and tortured while in detention over their alleged backing for anti-regime protests.

‘The claims and allegations made by female doctors in the AFP report are not only baseless but scurrilous,’ said a ministry statement emailed to the agency.

‘The Bahrain authorities affirm that very high standards of human rights norms are being followed at all detention / interrogation centres in the country.’

Several female doctors who were released recently had told AFP they were abused and tortured at the hands of interrogators in detention centres, amid a massive crackdown on the Shi’ite majority after security forces quelled a month-long protest in mid-March.

The women said they were forced under severe beating and verbal abuse to confess to backing their co-religionist protesters and abusing their positions. Some said they were made to testify against colleagues at Salmaniya hospital accused of lying and exaggerating on satellite channels to pile pressure on the government. There were also claims of verbal sexual harassment. …more