Bahrain: Prisoners Denied Medical Care

Expand Six individuals held in Bahraini prisons.  © Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (Beirut) – Bahrain’s authorities are failing to provide adequate medical care to high-profile prisoners, Human Rights Watch and the Bahrain Institution for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) said. Two detained human rights defenders, as well as the family members of four detained opposition activists, told Human Rights Watch and BIRD that prison authorities are arbitrarily denying the prisoners urgent medical care, refusing to refer them to specialists, failing to disclose medical examination results, and…

© Human Rights Watch - mardi 8 octobre 2019