recruitment process continued. The newspaper further reported that the Iranian media predicted a prominent role for Pakistan in the Middle East, accusing Pakistan of "collaborating with the Sunni rulers of Bahrain to crush a pro-democracy movement". In the early hours of 18 April, unknown assailants lobbed teargas grenades into the home of Nabeel Rajab, president of BCHR in the village of Bani Jamra. Tear gas penetrated into the adjacent home of Rajab's 78-year-old mother who suffers from respiratory disease, causing her great distress. To Human Rights Watch's knowledge, only Bahrain's security forces have access to the types of grenades thrown into the Rajab family's compound. 21 April Several reports have documented a systematic military abuse against medical staff. On 21 April, emails by a senior surgeon from the Salmaniya Medical Complex were published by The Independent, adding more details on the disappearance of medical staff reported on 5 April. The surgeon, before disappearing wrote on 8 April: "Three weeks of hell. The military took control of the Salmaniya Hospital. Doctors, nurses, paramedics and patients treated as suspects by soldiers and policemen. Daily interrogation and detention to some of our colleges [...] so many of our consultant surgeon and physician colleges been arrested at pre-dawn raids and disappear. Not only doctors, nurses paramedics, football players, university academics, dean of colleges... everybody is a suspect not sure but very much intimidated and frighten." UK medics have stated that Bahrain is violating the Geneva Convention. 28 April On 28 April, seven Shiite protesters Ali Abdullah Hassan Alsingace (incorrectly pronounced Al Singees, Qasim Hasan Matar Ahmad, Saeed Abduljalil Saeed, Abdulaziz Abdulridha Ibrahim Husain, Isa Abdullah Kadhem Ali, Sayyed Sadiq Ali Mahdi and Husain Jaafar Abdulkareem were convicted in a military court for the killing of two police officers Kashef Ahmed Mandhoor and Mohammed Farooq Abdulsamad Al Balooshi during the operation to evict protesters from the Pearl Roundabout on 16 March. The first four defendants were sentenced to death, while the remaining three were sentenced to life imprisonment. May 2011 17–18 May According to a police statement about a crackdown on a crowd of anti-government protesters in the village of Nuwaidrat on 17 May, one protestor was injured in the head followed by the injury of nine policemen deliberately hit by a car. After one of the protesters was injured in the head, his brother got into his car and drove at full speed into