John Halligan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will formally condemn and further call upon the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and the Medical Council of Ireland to unreservedly condemn the arrest, sentencing and ill treatment of a number of Bahraini medics, who were trained by the RCSI at its university in Bahrain (details supplied); if he will publicly call for their convictions to be immediately overturned and for the Bahraini authorities to show compassion and humanity; if he will call upon the King of Bahrain to intervene and correct the injustices committed, by commuting the prison sentences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45198/12]

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