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Bahraini Regime Tortures Pregnant Women in Dark Dungeons
TEHRAN, April 24 (FNA)- The Muslim Women Movement in a recent statement protested at the brutal and cruel behavior of the Bahraini regime towards women in the country, and revealed that the Al-Khalifa regime has imprisoned innocent pregnant women in horrible dungeons.
"They keep pregnant women in terrifying prisons, martyr their husbands under torture and attack people's homes at night and create panic and horror," the statement said on Saturday, addressing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
The statement condemned the silence shown by the international organizations on the massacre of the Bahraini and Yemeni people by their tyrannical rulers, and said "Hundreds of the Yemeni and Bahraini women are in prison for the ambitions of their bullying rulers."
The Muslim Women Movement in its statement warned the UN chief about the dire consequences of his continued silence on the developments in Bahrain, and underlined that the tremors of these big regional revolutions and uprisings will one day destroy the fragile palaces of the western governments.
The unwillingness of many western countries to forcefully criticize the killing of anti-government protesters in Bahrain illustrates the hypocrisy of the western governments who selectively support pro-democracy uprisings only when it serves their own vested interest.
Their silence over the atrocities and torturing of Shiite protesters by Bahrain's military and security forces - including the systematic destruction of Shiite mosques and holy places - is shocking, specially given the West's support for those protesters fighting against other Qaddafi's authoritarian regimes in Libya.
In an ominous turn of events, Britain's Independent newspaper reported on April 21 that Bahraini security authorities have intimidated and arrested doctors and other medical staff in hospitals, condemning them for treating individuals wounded during pro-democracy demonstrations.
Some doctors have reportedly been held incommunicado or have "disappeared". All of this is in total violation of the Geneva Convention on treating people injured during conflicts.
Such reticence to condemn the systematic killing of civilians demonstrating against the ruling al-Khalifa family since the protest movement began peacefully Feb. 14 is, however, not unexpected.
While western countries, particularly the United States, were initially reluctant to come out too openly in favor of the pro-democracy movements in places like Tunisia and Egypt - some American officials even indicating then president Hosni Mubarak or Egypt could stay in power to maintain stability during a transition to democracy - criticism of Bahrain's authorities was almost non-existent, limited to predictable exhortations for everyone to exercise restraint during such large-scale demonstrations calling for change.
"They keep pregnant women in terrifying prisons, martyr their husbands under torture and attack people's homes at night and create panic and horror," the statement said on Saturday, addressing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
The statement condemned the silence shown by the international organizations on the massacre of the Bahraini and Yemeni people by their tyrannical rulers, and said "Hundreds of the Yemeni and Bahraini women are in prison for the ambitions of their bullying rulers."
The Muslim Women Movement in its statement warned the UN chief about the dire consequences of his continued silence on the developments in Bahrain, and underlined that the tremors of these big regional revolutions and uprisings will one day destroy the fragile palaces of the western governments.
The unwillingness of many western countries to forcefully criticize the killing of anti-government protesters in Bahrain illustrates the hypocrisy of the western governments who selectively support pro-democracy uprisings only when it serves their own vested interest.
Their silence over the atrocities and torturing of Shiite protesters by Bahrain's military and security forces - including the systematic destruction of Shiite mosques and holy places - is shocking, specially given the West's support for those protesters fighting against other Qaddafi's authoritarian regimes in Libya.
In an ominous turn of events, Britain's Independent newspaper reported on April 21 that Bahraini security authorities have intimidated and arrested doctors and other medical staff in hospitals, condemning them for treating individuals wounded during pro-democracy demonstrations.
Some doctors have reportedly been held incommunicado or have "disappeared". All of this is in total violation of the Geneva Convention on treating people injured during conflicts.
Such reticence to condemn the systematic killing of civilians demonstrating against the ruling al-Khalifa family since the protest movement began peacefully Feb. 14 is, however, not unexpected.
While western countries, particularly the United States, were initially reluctant to come out too openly in favor of the pro-democracy movements in places like Tunisia and Egypt - some American officials even indicating then president Hosni Mubarak or Egypt could stay in power to maintain stability during a transition to democracy - criticism of Bahrain's authorities was almost non-existent, limited to predictable exhortations for everyone to exercise restraint during such large-scale demonstrations calling for change.
