BYSHR: URGENT APPEAL: Activist Abdulhadi Alkhawaja Transferred To Hosp
 

01-02-12 08:39 PM

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January 31st, 2012
The Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR) has just learned that human rights defender and previous MENA Coordinator for Frontline Defenders, Mr.Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, was transferred to the hospital after a drop in his sugar level and blood pressure.
Mr. Alkhawaja, along with other detained activists and political leaders, are on their second day of hunger strike in protest to the deteriorating human rights situation in the country and the continued detention of Bahrain prisoners of conscience in complete disregard to calls for their release by the United Nations and international Human Rights Organizations.
The BYSHR has also learned that other prisoners of conscience have also joined the hunger strike at the Dry Dock Prison and the Central Prison (Jaw). There are reports that prison authorities have been pressuring prisoners to end their hunger strike, through threats, solitary confinement and suspension of privileges.

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