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January 9, 2012

Bahrain Bars U.S.-Based Human Rights Official From Entering Country 
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Bahrain is refusing to allow a top official from a U.S.-based human
rights organization to enter the country to observe the trial of 21
doctors and nurses who were jailed for treating injured protesters.
Richard Sollom, deputy president of Physicians for Human Rights, tried
to enter Bahrain on Sunday. Richard Sollom appeared on Democracy Now!
last May after another trip to Bahrain.

Richard Sollom: "In my 20 years of looking at violations of medical
neutrality and human rights during times of war and civil war, I
personally have never seen such widespread and systematic targeting of
physicians, such egregious violations of the principle of medical
neutrality."



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