{"id":3716,"date":"2011-10-31T13:24:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T20:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2011-10-31T13:24:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T20:24:27","slug":"bahrain-academic-and-medical-professionals-suffer-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3716","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Academic and Medical Professionals Suffer Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain: Academic and Medical Professionals Suffer Abuse<\/strong><br \/>\n31 October, 2011 &#8211; POMED<\/p>\n<p>The Bahraini government has ordered Mrs. Jaleela Al Salman,Vice President of Bahrain\u2019s  Teachers Association, back to prison after her release to await her appeal. Jaleela outlined what she calls \u201cbeatings and sexual intimidation under threats of rape that lead her to making a forced confession of guilt before she received her first official day in court.\u201d The International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organizations sent a letter to Dr. Fatima Mohammed Al-Balushi, Bahrain Minister of Human Rights and Social Development, calling for an independent investigation into allegations of abuse of jailed medical professionals as well as calling for their release from prison.<\/p>\n<p>As the violent crackdown on peaceful anti-government protesters continues, reports have emerged of protesters sustaining serious eye injuries due to excessive force by security forces. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) reported \u201coften riot police aim directly at protesters specifically at the chest and head area. The wounds on protesters speak for themselves, especially the countless eye injuries which have lead to many protesters losing their eyes.\u201d  &#8230;source<\/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%3D3716&amp;text=Bahrain+Academic+and+Medical+Professionals+Suffer+Abuse&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain: Academic and Medical Professionals Suffer Abuse 31 October, 2011 &#8211; POMED The Bahraini government has ordered Mrs. Jaleela Al Salman,Vice President of Bahrain\u2019s Teachers Association, back to prison after her release to await her appeal. Jaleela outlined what she calls \u201cbeatings and sexual intimidation under threats of rape that lead her to making a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3716#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[1988],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716"}],"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=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}