Saeed Al Samaheji, one of 20 doctors and nurses who faced charges for their role in Bahrain’s Arab Spring uprisings, said the hunger strike was a move by “medics to reject and object to the court’s verdicts.”
Samaheji began the strike on Thursday after an appeals court cut his jail term to one year along with eight other medics and acquitted nine others for their role in the protests, in a case widely criticised by human rights groups. Two medics arrested in the crackdown, who remain at large, did not appeal.
