Bahrain steps up crackdown

Bahrain: A Bahraini political activist says the ruling regime in Manama has intensified its crackdown on the popular revolution in the tiny Persian Gulf state.

In order to deal with the rising militancy of the people and the medical staff, who are voicing their demands, the Bahraini regime is arresting them and taking them to military court, Saeed al-Shehabi, a Bahraini opposition leader stationed in London, told Press TV Wednesday night.

They will then be told that they are acting against the security of the regime, he said, noting that the regime in Bahrain is built on security for the ruling family and not for the security of the people.

"It does not matter for them if the people suffer. They think that they have the right to do anything to acquire land and to steal the money of the people," he said. Physicians for Human Rights have said that doctors and nurses have been detained, tortured, or disappeared because they have "evidence of atrocities committed by the authorities, security forces, and riot police" in the crackdown on anti-government protesters. Presstv