Rula al-Saffar describes her arrest and mistreatment in jail Link to this audio
When a Bahraini hospital started to take in casualties from
the violent crackdown on protesters earlier this year, Rula al-Saffar
was one of the first to volunteer. As a medical professor and president
of the Bahraini Nursing Society, she was not on the staff of the
overwhelmed Salmaniya hospital, but doctors needed all the help they
could get.
Saffar could not have known at the time that in
stepping in to help save lives she was endangering her own. Within weeks
she would be arrested, charged, convicted in a trial lasting minutes
and sentenced to 15 years in prison, along with 19 other hospital
medics. Now she waits at home in Manama, an imminent appeal case her
last chance for justice.
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