Bahraini Court Confirms Jail to Doctors

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Bahrain's top court confirmed on Monday jail sentences issued against nine doctors for "their role in treating protesters during last year anti-regime demonstrations."

The state news agency BNA quoted Attorney General Abdul-Rahman al-Sayed as saying Bahrain's Court of Cassation has rejected all appeals presented by the defendants and confirmed the previous verdicts of prison terms of up to five years.
In June, the appeals court gave Ali al-Ekry, former senior medic at the Salmaniya hospital in Manama, a five-year sentence and eight others sentences ranging from one month to three years.

Two medics previously sentenced to 15 years each, did not appeal and they are believed to be in hiding or to have left the country.
The Bahraini revolution began in mid-February 2011, when the people, inspired by the popular revolutions that toppled the dictators of Tunisia and Egypt, started holding massive demonstrations.

A report published by the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry in November 2011 found that al-Khalifa ruling regime had used excessive force in the crackdown and said Manama tortures political activists, politicians, and protesters.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org