Rula al-Saffar

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Charge:	Illegal gathering and plotting the government's overthrow
Sentence:	5 to 15 years
Years Imprisoned:	0.5
Year Crime:	2011
Year Convicted:	2011
Year Cleared:	2012
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Bahrain
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City of Crime:	Manama
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Nine medics in Bahrain's capital of Manama were wrongly convicted in September 2011 of gathering illegally and plotting to overthrow the government related to protests in February and March 2011, when in fact they were providing medical assistance to injured protesters. The medics, some of whome were doctors, worked at Manama's Salmaniya Medical complex. Their convictions were in part obtained on the basis of confessions, that the medics claimed were coerced by the use of torture. The nine were sentenced to between 5 and 15 years in prison, but they were released on bail after their convictions pending the outcome of their appeals..On June 14, 2012 Bahrain's appeals court acquitted the nine medics, in part by excluding the evidence of their disputed confessions. Nine other medics who were convicted had their convictions affirmed, although fivew were sentenced to less than one year in prison and released for time served, while four others were ordered taken back into custody to serve longer sentences."
Conviction Caused By:	False confessions extracted by coercive torture techniques by the police.
Innocence Proved By:	"On June 14, 2012 Bahrain's appeals court acquitted the nine medics, in part by excluding the evidence of their disputed confessions."
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Information Source 1:	"Bahrain court cuts protest medics' jail terms, By Luke Browne (staff), Global Post, June 14, 2012"
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Rula al-Saffar

Charge:

Illegal gathering and plotting the government's overthrow

Sentence:

5 to 15 years

Years Imprisoned:

0.5

Year Crime:

2011

Year Convicted:

2011

Year Cleared:

2012

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Bahrain

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Manama

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False confessions extracted by coercive torture techniques by the police.

Innocence Proved By:

"On June 14, 2012 Bahrain's appeals court acquitted the nine medics, in part by excluding the evidence of their disputed confessions."

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Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Male

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"Bahrain court cuts protest medics' jail terms, By Luke Browne (staff), Global Post, June 14, 2012"

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http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/120614/bahrain-court-cuts-protest-medics-jail-terms

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