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"Mr President, like millions around the world, workers and young people in Bahrain were inspired by the revolutionary uprisings in Tunisia and in Egypt. They struck a direct chord with them because of their own experience of hardship and a lack of democratic rights. When they took to the streets in order to demand democratic freedoms, to demand better living conditions, they were met with absolutely brutal repression by the Bahraini state forces and by the intervention of the Saudi army.
Repression continues and has in fact increased recently, including particularly against public sector workers and medical staff. Over 2 000 public sector workers have been laid off recently for presumed participation in the protests, or simply for treating those who were injured by state forces. Thirty-one of the 48 Salmaniya medical workers who were convicted before the military tribunal, were subsequently acquitted by the criminal court. However, several doctors remain in jail and many of those who have been acquitted have been unable to return to their jobs or to engage in private practice.
In August King Hamad issued a royal decree that indefinitely suspends the right to free assembly in the capital. All political prisoners need to be released without further delay. All workers that have been sacked simply for exercising their legitimate right to protest must be reinstated. Finally, let me ask the question: is it not the most blatant hypocrisy that those very forces that are screaming for an attack on Syria – the US and Britain – are engaged in arms trading with this force in this region?"@en1
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