As an Irish surgeon I am ashamed to read yet another carefully wordeddenial by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) of “ongoing” abuses in Bahrain.

TWO Irish-trained surgeons have entered their second week of hunger strike in Bahrain.

A NUMBER of Irish-trained medical personnel unlawfully detained in Bahrain are not among 143 prisoners granted a royal pardon, despite pressure from Irish human rights activists.

A LEADING medic has resigned his fellowship of the country’s largest postgraduate medical institution in protest at its failure to condemn the detention and torture of nurses and doctors in Bahrain.