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(413 posts) Sun Aug 31, 2014, 02:15 PM Aug 2014

Bahrain arrests top human rights activist

Source: Al Jazeera

Last updated: 31 Aug 2014 08:14

The prominent Bahrain human rights activist and critic of the ruling family, Maryam al-Khawaja, has been arrested by authorities on her arrival at the Gulf state's airport.

Posts on the Twitter account of Khawaja said she had been charged with insulting the king, assaulting police officers, and faced charges for her involvement with the rights campaign, Wanted For Justice.

Khawaja, the co-director of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights, is the daughter of Shia Muslim activist Abdulhadi Abdulla Hubail al-Khawaja, who has been in custody in Bahrain since 2011 and is on hunger strike.

The Reuters news agency reported her mother Khadija al-Musawi as saying her daughter would be transferred to the public prosecution court on Sunday.

A later post on her Twitter account stated that she would be held for seven days and was not allowed to see a lawyer before her interrogation.

Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/08/bahrain-arrests-top-human-rights-activist-20148312565870398.html

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Bahrain arrests top human rights activist (Original Post) veness Aug 2014 OP

Aren't we proud of the home of the Fifth Fleet. Check out our allies! Dems to Win Aug 2014 #1

"... assaulting police officers ..." Trillo Aug 2014 #2

Kicking. Thank you. nt littlemissmartypants Sep 2014 #3

Press Release by Nabeel Rajab, BCHR and GCHR veness Sep 2014 #4

Dems to Win

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1. Aren't we proud of the home of the Fifth Fleet. Check out our allies!

Reply to veness (Original post)

Sun Aug 31, 2014, 02:29 PM

Aug 2014

If America really wanted to fight terrorism and human rights abuses, we'd be using that fleet to bomb Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar....

Not that I'm in favor of endless war. But I'd sure like US troops to be brought home from the area, so we are no longer complicit in their abuses.

Trillo

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2. "... assaulting police officers ..."

Reply to veness (Original post)

Sun Aug 31, 2014, 08:10 PM

Aug 2014

Uh huh.

littlemissmartypants

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3. Kicking. Thank you. nt

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Mon Sep 1, 2014, 03:38 AM

Sep 2014

veness

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4. Press Release by Nabeel Rajab, BCHR and GCHR

Reply to veness (Original post)

Mon Sep 1, 2014, 01:00 PM

Sep 2014

BAHRAIN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
GULF CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

For Immediate Release / Bahrain: Courageous Human Rights Defender Maryam Al-Khawaja Arrested in Bahrain; Could Face Lengthy Prison Sentence

2014-08-31

Press release here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1253435

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