While Law is there promoting the school, it could be great if he went to see the family of Ahmad Shams, the 15 year-old boy who was shot by the police, according to his family, while carrying a Person United top in March 2011, or jumped in to see Dr. Fatima Haji, one of many medics in Bahrain who was tortured and interrogated about her connection to Man United. Ahmed Shams was playing football together with his friends near his house in Sar on March 30 2011, his family explained, when he was killed by security forces. Around 5:30 p.m. in a quiet area, two sets of security vehicles appeared, eight in every. When the boys playing saw them, they went, and law enforcement started shooting rubber bullets at them. They say Ahmed was hit by a "sound bomb" cartridge on the rear of his head. He continued running, but was beaten and captured by law enforcement. His father took him to a relative's house and then to the American Mission hospital. His family says security soldiers came and got him to the primary Salmaniya Hospital, where he died, still carrying a Manchester United shirt, while being examined by a physician. A commission of inquiry into what happened during the attack on protestors ordered by the Bahrain government found that "No autopsy was conducted and no formal cause of death has been recorded," and that "The MoI [Ministry of the Interior] has didn't perform an effective investigation into the circumstances surrounding this death." It had been hard for me personally to consider the Man United cards on Ahmed's bedroom wall when I visited his home 2-3 weeks after he died. I since May 1968 when I was five, and have am also a Person United fan and saw George Best on the TV go round the Benfica keeper in the European Cup Final. On my bedroom wall I'd images of Most readily useful and Denis Law. Ahmed had Rooney and the remainder of the team on his. In the times after his death, some people in Bahrain wrote to Man United asking when they may maintain a minute's silence before certainly one of their games in homage to Ahmed. An committed question, but people sent emails to the Man United consideration making the demand. One was Dr. Fatima Haji, a in Bahrain's Salmaniya Medical Complex, and a Ryan Giggs fan. Alongside dozens of different medics she was arrested after managing wounded protestors and tortured in custody. But her interrogation was a little different; she'd prepared the email seeking the minute's silence and then deleted it, knowing it may be incriminating. When she was arrested on April 17 her notebook was taken also, and several days later--with sad efficiency--Man United responded to her email, which her interrogators then saw. "I was blindfolded and handcuffed with my arms behind my back, and crushed. A guy asked me 'what's can be your relationship with Alex Ferguson'? I was amazed and determined they had experienced my messages. I was hit by a female officer on head on both sides at the same time frame - she was carrying what I later found out was a particular electric group on her arms and she electrocuted me several occasions - a shock wave was felt by me through my head. It was very unpleasant and the whole world was spinning. I was beaten again on the head." Haji says she was questioned over and over again about her link with Manchester United "because they had responded to my email the authorities thought I somehow knew someone at Manchester United." She spent weeks in custody and was tried with 19 other medics in a military court. She was sentenced to five years in prison and then acquitted on appeal in June 2012. Three of her co-accused continue to be in prison. None of the was Man United's fault, but the team and Denis Law should know about what happened to Ahmed and Fatima, and say something about it. Follow Brian Dooley on Twitter: www.twitter.com/@dooley_dooley
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