Health Personnel Targeted, Prevented From Providing Services
March 17, 2011
"(Manama) - Bahraini authorities refused to let injured people reach the country's largest public health facility on March 16, 2011, and interfered with medical services at other facilities as well, Human Rights Watch said today. Security forces prevented ambulances transporting injured people from reaching the hospitals.
The security forces prevented access to medical care after they used teargas, rubber bullets, gunshot pellets, and live ammunition rounds to disperse protesters at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama early in the morning and established control over surrounding Shia areas. The security operation on March 16 and operations in several other Shia villages on March 15 resulted in the deaths of at least six civilians and three members of Bahrain's security forces, and hundreds of injuries, according to media reports.
"There can be no justification for denying critical medical care," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "King Hamad, as the commander of Bahrain's army, bears responsibility for this flagrant violation of the right to health and potentially the right to life...."
March 17, 2011
"(Manama) - Bahraini authorities refused to let injured people reach the country's largest public health facility on March 16, 2011, and interfered with medical services at other facilities as well, Human Rights Watch said today. Security forces prevented ambulances transporting injured people from reaching the hospitals.
The security forces prevented access to medical care after they used teargas, rubber bullets, gunshot pellets, and live ammunition rounds to disperse protesters at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama early in the morning and established control over surrounding Shia areas. The security operation on March 16 and operations in several other Shia villages on March 15 resulted in the deaths of at least six civilians and three members of Bahrain's security forces, and hundreds of injuries, according to media reports.
"There can be no justification for denying critical medical care," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "King Hamad, as the commander of Bahrain's army, bears responsibility for this flagrant violation of the right to health and potentially the right to life...."
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