28-03-2024 10:56 AM Jerusalem Timing

Bahrainis Voice Support for Hunger Striker

Bahrainis Voice Support for Hunger Striker

Bahrainis staged rallies across the country to express their support of the human rights activists, who has been in Al Khalifa’s prison for months.

Bahrainis staged rallies across the country to express their support of the human rights activists, who has been in Al Khalifa’s prison for months.bahrain protest

Abdulhadi al-Khawaja’s health has been deteriorating, after he entered the 55th day of his hunger strike.
Demonstrators gathered on Tuesday outside the US embassy and in front of the Interior Ministry in the capital Manama to protest against al-Khawaja's detention.


Al-Khawaja’s daughter, Maryam, told Press TV that the physical health of her father had severely deteriorated and he was "entering a critical phase where his life is at stake."

She said two doctors had accompanied her father through Monday night and he was being moved on Tuesday to a different prison that has medical equipment as there were fears that he might go into a coma at any time. abdulhadi khawaja


In June, Al-Khawaja was handed down a life sentence for having led an anti-regime protest earlier last year.
Human rights groups have asked the regime to release him on humanitarian grounds.

On Friday, Amnesty International called for the ‘immediate and unconditional release’ of al-Khawaja and other detained activists in the country.

"The Bahraini authorities have made pledges that they would release people, who were imprisoned for exercising their right to freedom of expression, but the continued imprisonment of Abdulhadi al-Khawaja demonstrates that they are not serious about fulfilling such promises," Phillip Luther, the group’s Middle East and North Africa director, said in a statement.