Two Bahraini prisoners on hunger strike
Two Bahraini anti-government prisoners have gone on a hunger strike to protest against their imprisonment and tortures they have suffered.
According to Press TV, rights group Amnesty International said Roula al-Saffar, head of the Bahrain Nursing Society and Jalila al-Salman, deputy head of the Bahrain Teachers' Association, were arrested several months ago for taking part in anti-regime protest rallies.
According to the London-based group, the two have been subjected to torture.
It is not clear when the two women began the hunger strike but according to Amnesty these activists stopped eating to protest against their continued detention after a number of anti-government prisoners were released on bail.
Meanwhile, Bahraini authorities have admitted that regime forces attacked a medical center run by the Paris-based Doctors without Borders (MSF) in the capital last week.
The conformation came one day after MSF had criticized the "armed raid" in Manama and condemned the confiscation of their medical equipment and the detention of one of their volunteer workers by Bahraini police.
Source: irib.ir
