The Independent published a report on Bahraini security forces’ brutal acts against medical centers and staff, revealed torture and humiliation exerted against them.

Bahraini protesters as well as doctors and medical staff are being subjected to horrifying types of humiliations and torture.

Unlike the case with regional pro-democracy protests, international media has been completely ignoring and blacking out the protests taking place in Bahrain since February; knowing that the suppression the pro-west regime is exerting on peaceful protests is unprecedented.

The Independent published Tuesday a report revealing the brutal state in Bahrain and the extent of torture and humiliation that the security forces are ready to use in quashing their fellow countrymen.

The British daily illustrated the state of the ransacked hospitals and beaten medical staff that were forced, under torture, to make false confessions. This state of violence against doctors increased after the latter protested against the government’s refusal to allow ambulances from “Salmaniya” Hospital to reach those injured in the protests.

“Health centers have been systematically attacked by the security forces over the past month”, it reported, illustrating “police jeeps surround the center, before armed men and women in masks close the gates and line all those caught inside up against the wall... police dogs are used to spread fear among the staff”.

The report revealed that “at least 40 medical staff were arrested in nine health centers between 10 April and 27 April”.

It quoted one consultant and family physician, who preferred to remain anonymous for fear over her children’s safety, as saying that “she had been beaten, abused and humiliated and left with a black eye and bruises on her back during a seven-hour detention at the Central Province Police centre”.

“She was sworn at, called by dirty words, beaten with a thick hose and forced to sing the national anthem... at one point she was blindfolded and made to run down a corridor until she banged into a wall”.

“She was accused of protesting against the regime, and was beaten when she denied it. She was released after signing a document admitting she had protested against the Health Minister”, the report included.

The family physician said that “another abducted female doctor was unable to sing the national anthem when ordered to do so because her throat was too dry... the interrogators gave her a tiny sip of water and told her to stick out her tongue. She was blindfolded and when she put her tongue out, one of the officers suddenly stabbed it with a pen. Then they told her to sit on a chair because she felt dizzy”.

"When she went to sit, they pulled the chair away and she fell to the ground. Then they threw the chair at her and it landed on top of head. They told her not to remove the chair from her head”.

Security forces have applied Al Khalifa regime’s demands with cruelty and forced detainees to confess to immoral acts they had not committed.

The daily quoted the head of ethics at the British Medical Association, Vivienne Nathanson as saying that “The UK Government should be doing everything it can to bring pressure on any government, whether Bahraini or not, to ensure healthcare can be provided in safety”.