On air: 1100GMT Are doctors in Bahrain targets?
| 10:47 UK time, Friday, 22 April 2011
Doctors have become the center of the story in Bahrain.
has called for an international investigation into the use of 'excessive force'
It says at least 32 medics are among those arrested since the protests began
The government denies the reports and that it was false to suggest that doctors were being indiscriminately arrested or targeted.
Physicians for Human Rights says it believes medics have been targeted for arrest because they have treated wounded protesters and seen evidence of abuses by security forces.
The International Committee of Red Cross has been requesting to visit detainees since March. It has had no answer.
However Maysoon Sabkar, a government spokesperson, said the accusations made by Physicians for Human Rights was "wholly false".
Here's a little more of what he had to say:
"What such organisations have so far failed to understand is that the services of some of Bahrain's main medical facilities, including Salmaniya Medical Complex, had been overrun by political and sectarian activity,"
"This extended beyond the spreading of malicious propaganda to the blocking of medical care, severely interrupting services and endangering life.
Jonathan Fryer tweeted #Britain and #US have reprimanded #Bahrain over human rights abuses but what greater pressure are they willing to deploy?
What pressure, if any, would you like your government to apply?
