Bahraini Human Rights activist Nabeel Rajab began hunger strike in prison to protest against preventing him from participating in the all 3-day funeral of his mother who died last Thursday

Bahraini Human Rights activist Nabeel Rajab began hunger strike in prison to protest against preventing him from participating in the all 3-day funeral of his mother who died last Thursday.

“Nabeel Rajab called me Friday and informed me that he would stop eating food, drinking water and taking his medicine until he’s allowed to attend his mother’s funeral,” his wife Soumaya Rajab appealed via "Twitter".

She added: “I spoke with the doctors and they told me that Rajab’s health would collapse after 24 hours without water and his body organs will stop from working after just three days.”

Several rallies were held in Bahraini cities in loyalty to the martyrs of the popular uprising who died recently. Some villages also saw demonstrations in solidarity with Nabeel Rajab. Rallies were met with tear gas and hot water, which is a newly used weapon by the Bahraini forces against peaceful protesters.

Rajab was set to be freed for 3 days to attend his mother’s funeral. He was freed but then arrested in the first day because of a speech he delivered which the authorities claimed as “provocative.”

In the same context, a Bahraini medic was freed on Sunday for time served in jail, just five days after he was sentenced with five colleagues in connection with last year's anti-regime protests in the Gulf state, his lawyers said.

They said Mahmud Asghar, who was sentenced to six months, was released for time served before his conviction.

The six medics were jailed on Tuesday, a day after their convictions were upheld by the kingdom's highest court.

The medics were among 20 doctors and nurses who worked at the Salmaniya Medical Complex in Manama during the popular uprising against the oppressive rule in the kingdom.