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Sunday, October 14, 2012 at 11:06 | Scott Lucas in Africa, EA Global, EA Live, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran The aftermath of the downing of a Syrian jet fighter near Aleppo on Saturday
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1959 GMT: Bahrain. Five medics whose convictions were recently upheld have gone on hunger strike, according to their lawyers.
The five were among 20 medical staff who were sentenced to lengthy prison terms by a military court last year after they gave medical treatment to demonstrators. The sentences were reduced this summer; however, after they were reaffirmed by an appeal court last month, the five medics were detained.
Calling their action "The Lost Justice", the medics repeated that the authorities used "harsh and systematic torture" during their detention, which "caused injuries and disabilities whose traces remain on [their] bodies.