'The Bahraini royal government has issued a virtual hunting license to occupying Saudi and GCC troops, Bahraini soldiers and security police as they invade homes, mosques and villages, assaulting civilians at funerals mourning the dead and in the homes of those gathered to grieve for daily victims.

Doctors and surgeons who survived the round-ups and assaults in the streets have switched off their mobile phones and gone into hiding with families and friends in the villages and interior. Many seized in the hospitals have disappeared, to the despair of those closest to them.'

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