Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières had teamed up with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland to organise the cancelled two-day conference in Bahrain to examine “medical ethics and dilemmas in situations of political discord or violence”.

Cairo-March26(BNA) The National United Oganisation for Human Rights today condemned the campaign of sabotage orchestrated in Bahrain since the February 2011 crisis to disrupt the educational system and deny students their right to learn. The Egyptian watchdog reported a total 108 attacks, with the latest targeting the Philippine School. In a statement to "Al-Yaum Al-Sabea", National United Oganisation for Human Rights President Mohammed Abdul-Naim Read more [...]

Thirteen pro-democracy activists were sentenced to 10 years in jail Tuesday in Bahrain over allegations they attacked police officers in the latest fallout from protests that rocked the country more than two years ago. Meanwhile, a rights group has expressed fears about a father and daughter who have been on hunger strike since March 17 to protest their detention in the Gulf nation. They had stopped taking water Sunday but resumed Read more [...]

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MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — A rights group says two imprisoned pro-democracy activists on hunger strike to protest their detention in crisis-hit Bahrain have started refusing water. Freedom House said in a statement Tuesday that it is "deeply concerned" for Zainab al-Khawaja and her father Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who started a hunger strike March 17 to protest. They went on "dry hunger strike" on Sunday after being denied a family visit in prison, it said. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights said doctors Read more [...]