Weaponizing Tear Gas:Bahrain's Unprecedented Use of Toxic Chemical Agents Against Civilians

We recover this 2012 report from P4HR from the English and Reports-Informes-Recursos sections. Situation in the country has not changed and teargas continues being used massively against peaceful protesters. 

More updated info on @onadaexpansiva #Bahrain @P4HR

Weaponizing Tear Gas:Bahrain's Unprecedented Use of Toxic Chemical Agents Against Civilians by Holly G. Atkinson, MD, FACP Richard Sollom, MA, MPH

Activists in front of the South Korean embassy in London on October 25th, 2013 protesting against the (then) planned massive export of teargas from a South Korean company to Bahrain authorities. Picture from the Stop the Arms Trade campaign.

Full report (pdf)

Executive Summary

Richard Sollom's testimony to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (US Congress) on Bahrain's use of teargas against civilians.

 
The Bahrain government’s indiscriminate use of tear gas as a weapon has resulted in the maiming, blinding, and even killing of civilian protesters, and must stop at once while the government reassesses the use of such toxic chemical agents. 

The Role of Health Professionals in Detainee Interrogation

We recover a piece by Santiago Wills  originally appeared in The Atlantic in November 2012 on the responsibilities held by US health professionals (specially psychiatrists but also nurses and medical doctors) in military interrogations which could be considered under universal standards as torture.We inserted further hyperlinks and embedded a November 2013 Democracy Now video on the issue and a trailer for the Doctors of the dark side a documentary by Martha Davis  . As usual we have added some background and updated info from this blog, our twitter (@onadaexpansiva) and external sources.

A teenager tortured at Guantanamo, and the stalled legislation to ensure clinicians "first, do no harm"

On December 25, 2003, Mohammed Jawad, an Afghani teenager held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, repeatedly banged his head against the metal structures of his cell in an effort to kill himself. The dull echoes of the blows attracted the prison's guards. As they reached the cell, Jawad struck the solid surface once again. Even though suicide is prohibited in Islam, Jawad, a devout Muslim, thought that perhaps he could be forgiven in this case. The situation had slipped beyond his control, he told his attorney Eric Montalvo years later.