Bahraini doctor detained for Tweets needs legal and medical support, says BMA

A Bahraini ophthalmologist and activist who was detained in Bahrain after protesting on Twitter about Saudi Arabia’s execution of the prominent Saudi Shi’a cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr must be granted access to legal and medical support, the BMA has urged.

Saeed al-Samahiji was arrested on 3 January at his home near the Bahraini capital, Manama, and is being held at the Dry Dock prison in Manama. Amnesty International said that he told his family he was being held for interrogation over his comments about the cleric’s execution and for …