The Ministry of Health in Bahrain had nothing other than confirming the certainty that: the “Tuberculosis” is spreading in Al-Khalifah prisons but it attempted to soften the blow of the new, by embellishing it with rhetoric and mitigating terms, as, there is one infected person and he’s stable and undergoing the necessary treatment and medical care after examination and diagnosis, according to its statement which was published by BNA on Thursday, June 2, 2022.
It also stated that it is doing the necessary precautionary examinations on the rest of the people sitting with him to check on the health situation in general, but it’s unknown if this ministry has sufficient information about the severity of Tuberculosis and the speed of its spread, or has information about the detainees who suffer from its symptoms, and jurists have mentioned their names even the Amnesty International has expressed its deep concern about the regime’s gross negligence of tuberculosis “cases” among the detainees of Jaw prison.
In contrast, the detainees’ families are working to launch the hashtag “#ReleaseBahrainiPrisoners” expressing through their tweets on social media their insistence on their sons’ right to freedom under the spread of disease and the deliberate
and systematic medical neglect in the regime’s prisons. What is striking was the proliferation of an anti-hashtag from those who support the regime to disrupt this hashtag which is a cynical move from this criminal regime who pretends in public that it is with the public opinion while in secret continues its revenge against the people who demand the right to self-determination.
The jurist “Ibtissam Al-Saegh” had confirmed that the serious pulmonary tuberculosis disease was spreading among the political detainees in the regime’s prisons especially with the denial of treatment and the prevention of the disease. She stated that there are two confirmed detainees infected with tuberculosis, they are the prisoners of conscience “Hassan Abdullah Habib” and “Mortada Mohammad Abdul Riza”, and a suspected injury
to the detainee “Sayed Nizar Alwadaei”, in addition to the editor “Ahmad Jaber Radhi” who was released after the deterioration of his health condition as a result of illness.
