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Health professionals should be speaking out about the victimisation of doctors in Bahrain

Stuart Saunders, Leslie London

Abstract


Doctors in Bahrain who treated people wounded during and after demonstrations have been arrested, tried by a military court and given sentences of up to 15 years’ imprisonment.

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Stuart Saunders, University of Cape Town

Leslie London, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town

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Keywords

Human Rights; victimisation; professional

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South African Medical Journal 2012;102(3):112-112.

Article History

Date submitted: 2012-01-17
Date published: 2012-02-23

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