Bahrain is refusing to allow a top official from a U.S.-based human rights organization to enter the country to observe the trial of 21 doctors and nurses who were jailed for treating injured protesters. Richard Sollom, deputy president of Physicians for Human Rights, tried to enter Bahrain on Sunday. Richard Sollom appeared on Democracy Now! last May after another trip to Bahrain.

Richard Sollom: “In my 20 years of looking at violations of medical neutrality and human rights during times of war and civil war, I personally have never seen such widespread and systematic targeting of physicians, such egregious violations of the principle of medical neutrality.”