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To: Les H who wrote (42884)	9/30/2011 11:27:37 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 119360

Bahrain gives protester, doctors harsh sentences J. David Goodman, New York Times Friday, September 30, 2011 A court in Bahrain sentenced a protester to death Thursday for killing a police officer in March and issued harsh prison terms to medical workers who treated protesters wounded during months of unrest there this spring. The punishments drew strong criticism from rights groups. The official Bahrain News Agency reported that eight people it identified as doctors who worked at a central hospital in the capital, Manama, received 15-year sentences. Other medical personnel at the Salmaniya Medical Complex, Bahrain's largest public hospital, were given terms of between five and 15 years. The sentences were the latest sign that the country's Sunni monarchy would continue to deal severely with those involved in widespread protests earlier this year, mostly by members of its repressed Shiite majority. Much of that effort has been focused on the doctors and nurses who treated demonstrators. At the height of the protests, security forces commandeered the Salmaniya hospital and arrested dozens of doctors and nurses. Human rights activists have since accused the government of having made systematic efforts to deny medical services to wounded protesters. The international relief organization Doctors Without Borders stopped working in Bahrain last month after its offices were raided. The government of Bahrain, with help from Saudi Arabia, violently quashed the country's peaceful protest movement in March. Despite the crackdown, demonstrations still occur regularly. Human rights groups say that since the unrest began in the Persian Gulf kingdom of only about 525,000 citizens, 34 people have been killed, more than 1,400 arrested and as many as 3,600 people have been fired from their jobs. Four people also died in custody after torture, the rights groups say. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/29/MNU41LBDR6.DTL#ixzz1ZRx3dFyN