{"id":17163,"date":"2013-04-22T15:04:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T21:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17163"},"modified":"2013-04-22T15:04:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T21:04:52","slug":"bahrain-abuse-of-political-prisoners-rampant-as-rajab-denied-medical-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17163","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Abuse of Political Prisoners Rampant as Rajab Denied Medical Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahraini Prison Authorities Accused of Denying Medical Treatment to Nabeel Rajab<\/strong><br \/>\n22 April, 2013 &#8211; Human Rights First<\/p>\n<p>Washington, D.C. \u2013 Prominent Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Rajab should be given immediate access to the medical attention he requires, said Human Rights First today. Rajab, President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), is serving a two-year prison sentences for tweeting about protests, and is reportedly being denied medical treatment for a back injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNabeel shouldn\u2019t be in prison in the first place, but while he is, Bahrain authorities have a duty to provide him with necessary medical treatment,\u201d said Human Rights First\u2019s Brian Dooley. \u201cNabeel\u2019s wife, Sumaya, told me she just spoke to her husband on the phone. She said whenever Nabeel goes to the prison clinic, he just gets the same inadequate medication and he is forced to sit or lie down most of the day because of the severe pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rajab says he has had chronic disc problems in his back since a beating by the police eight years ago and that he is being denied proper medical attention and medication. Families of other political prisoners, including that of Mahdi Abu Deeb, President of the Bahrain Teachers Association, also say necessary medical treatment is being denied to detainees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to see why the Bahrain regime would want to attract more negative attention to itself by failing to treat Nabeel\u2019s injury,\u201d said Dooley.<\/p>\n<p>Rajab is one of the most respected and well known human rights activists in the region. In 2012, Human Rights First awarded the BCHR the Roger Baldwin Medal of Liberty. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanrightsfirst.org\/2013\/04\/22\/bahraini-prison-authorities-accused-of-denying-medical-treatment-to-nabeel-rajab\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D17163&amp;text=Bahrain+Abuse+of+Political+Prisoners+Rampant+as+Rajab+Denied+Medical+Care&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahraini Prison Authorities Accused of Denying Medical Treatment to Nabeel Rajab 22 April, 2013 &#8211; Human Rights First Washington, D.C. \u2013 Prominent Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Rajab should be given immediate access to the medical attention he requires, said Human Rights First today. Rajab, President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17163#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[4064],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17165,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17163\/revisions\/17165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}