Dr. Farida Al-Dalal ….. The horrific night.

Dr. Farida Al-Dalal

 Dr. Farida Al-Dalal said to Al Jazeera English in an interview after she was detained for a day, whereas the bruises and the marks of beating were clear on her face, that she got arrested from here office in front of her staff and patients by masked men and women who were covering their faces with black glasses. After investigating her in her office and inspecting her computer she was taken to the police station where she was beaten, slapped on the face, hit by a heavy hose on the forearms and legs and kicked in her back. Also, they covered her eyes with other detainees and commanded them to run to slam into the walls. Moreover, they ordered them to dance, and insulted them verbally by calling them “Dirty Shiites”, “Whore” and “Idiots who do not deserve wearing the white coat.” These sanctions were meant to humiliate and psychology abuse the detainees, in addition to physical damage as a result of beating. It is noteworthy that Dr. Farida Al-Dalal is Dr. Ali Al-Ekry’s wife, who is detained and it is believed that her arrest, beaten and insulting is linked to his arrest. Dr. Al-Dalal expressed her concern over herself after speaking to Al Jazeera “"especially in light of the international community's silence about abuses taking place in Bahrain.” The center was informed that she got another call to the police station on Saturday 7 May.

Dr. Farida tells her own story in an interview to Aljazeera.

Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNko6i8qrLA



 Bahraini women are paying dearly for expressing their views.

Source: Bahrain Center for Human Rights

Three women are still detained in prison and dozens awaiting trial.

Others are being dismissed from work and education.

Bahrain center for Human Rights strongly condemns the ongoing crackdown against the peaceful protesters in Bahrain, specially the repression and detention of a great number of Bahraini women such as political and social activists, doctors, teachers, housewives as well as school and university students.

These women are facing torture as well as physical and verbal abuses that leads to death in some cases; in addition to the dismissal from work and education. This is thought to be a vengeance against Bahraini women for the key role they played since the beginning of the protests; a way to force them giving up that role and retreat any activity they had in the protesting movement since last February. It is also a way to add pressure on the opposition to retreat their legitimate demands

Read more: http://www.asafeworldforwomen.org/war-zones/cp-bahrain/1236-bahraini-women-are-paying-dearly-for-expressing-their-views.html

 Last but not least:

CBS report from April shows that doctors have been targeted from the start of the protests:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTTVNFV9qdU

The Independent - Bahrain medical staff 'tortured for confessions'
Doctors and nurses put on trial in Bahrain yesterday told relatives they were beaten with hoses and wooden boards embedded with nails and made to eat faeces. They also had to stand without moving for hours, or even days, and were deprived of sleep in order to force them to sign false confessions.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/bahr..

CNN - Bahrain security forces torture doctors, medics and patients
Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ_iJI1FJ2I

Al-Jazeera : Bahraini medics recount hospital horror
Video, 15 March 2011 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pr6rbhv80c

 One experienced Shia doctor, whose identity we agreed to hide, said she treated all her regular hospital patients by day and demonstrators at the roundabout at night.

“And during the interrogation, whenever I said something which they don't like it, they will slap me again. And I was beaten also by a hose on my hands and my thighs. When I finished, they took me back to the other room, and they came to me later on. In the dark while my -- still I was blindfolded, they gave me the paper of confession to sign it and thumb -- thumbprint without knowing what is there in that paper.”

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world..

 Bahrain medics claim confession under torture
"We were blindfolded for about 10 hours. Only at the time when [we] were videotaped did they take the blindfolds off. When we started to talk, if they didn't like the things that we were saying they stopped us and told us again that we should say this this and this."
Video - http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/20..

'They beat and slapped me and called me whore and dirty Shia'
Bahrain: a doctor's story
One consultant and family physician described in an email how she had been beaten, abused and humiliated and left with a black eye and bruises on her back during a seven-hour detention at the Central Province Police centre. Fearing for the safety of her children, she asked to remain anonymous.
http://www.independent.co.uk/..

Blindfolded, beaten and tortured: grim new testimony reveals fate of Bahrain's persecuted doctors
Details of the assaults, collected by the families of those detained and passed to The Independent, show that at least 40 medical staff were arrested in nine health centres between 10 April and 27 April. Dr Ahmed Jamal, president of the Bahrain Medical Society, was arrested at his clinic on 2 May.
Among 11 female doctors and nurses arrested, eight were released on 4 May but three remain detained, including Rula Jasim al-Saffar, 49, president of the Bahrain Nursing Society who has been held in custody for five weeks.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middl..

Bahraini female doctors recount detention 'horror'
"I advise you that we will get you to say whatever we want, either by you saying it willingly, or we will beat you like a donkey and torture you until you say it," one female doctor said, citing her interrogator.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/art..