Forum: Tortured for giving care: Bahrani nurse tells her story

Saturday, February 16, 2013 - 16:00 to 18:30

Rula Al'Saffar, President of the Bahrain Nursing Society, was named the 11th most influential person in the Middle East. In 2011, she was tortured by the Bahraini government after treating protestors injured during anti-government uprisings. Rula will tell the story of how a campaign for better wages turned into a crisis when her hospital was militarized. With Michael Hayworth, Amnesty crisis campaigner.

4pm Unions NSW Trades Hall Auditorium, 4 Goulburn St, Sydney (enter via rear doors on Dixon Street). For more information, call Olivia 0401 955 405. Facebook event http://www.facebook.com/events/126316567541223/129733467199533/?notif_t=...