Urgent: my father AbdulHadi Al-Khawaja, Bahraini Danish human rights defender and prisoner of conscience, has started his "March to Freedom" and is currently staging a peaceful sit in at the prison counter outside his cell and refusing to leave. Please listen and share

Urgent update: my father Abdulhadi AlKhawaja, Danish Bahraini human rights defender and prisoner of conscience, has now moved his sit in outside the prison building in spirit of what he calls "crossing the locked gates" Please listen and share #FreeAlKhawaja Lars Løkke Rasmussen

They've now threatened my father with use of violence. The call was cut while I was getting this update. Cc Lars Løkke Rasmussen Statsministeriet Udenrigsministeriets Borgerservice #FreeAlKhawaja #Bahrain #DKPol

لقد هددوا والدي الآن باستخدام العنف. انقطع الاتصال أثناء تلقي هذا التحديث. #الحرية_للخواجة #البحرين Maryam Alkhawaja BIRD Sayed Ahmed AlWadaei

Danmarks eneste samvittighedsfange skal løslades nu! Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja har været fængslet i Bahrain siden 2011 - og bliver nu truet med vold, fordi han protesterer fredeligt imod sin fængsling. Lyt til hans datters opdatering 👇#dkpol #FreeAlKhawaja

It has been more than 24 hours since Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja staged his sit-in protest outside his building at Jau Prison. Maryam Alkhawaja was informed today that her father slept on a chair last night. This protest is his last resort to restore his video calls, so he can see his

Lars Løkke Rasmussen og Liselotte Plesner: gode nyheder fra Kuwait, som netop har løsladt et stort antal amerikanske statsborgere. Kan det være at #Danmark kan lære noget af den amerikanske strategi og endelig få en dansk statsborger løsladt fra #Bahrain? Maryam Alkhawaja #freealkhawaja

🚨 Please read the Front Line Defenders Global Analysis, which is an in-depth annual publication detailing the variety of risks, threats and attacks faced by human rights defenders around the world, and region by region 🌏 Here is what the report says about #Bahrain: "In Bahrain,

#Bahrain: Joint Letter on Human Rights Situation to Member & Observer States of UN Human Rights Council ahead of #HRC59 & Eid al-Adha calls for human rights defenders, bloggers, journalists, opposition & religious activists & death row inmates to be freed gc4hr.org/joint-letter-o…

البحرين: رسالة مشتركة بشأن حالة حقوق الإنسان إلى الدول الأعضاء والمراقبة في مجلس حقوق الإنسان التابع للأمم المتحدة الدورة التاسعة والخمسون القادمة لمجلس حقوق الإنسان وعيد الأضحى المبارك gc4hr.org/ar/joint-lette…

7pm last night, in the gardens of St. Thomas' Hospital, people came together in a beautiful vigil in support of Laila Soueif and her struggle to save her family. As the sun set on the 242nd day of Dr. Laila's hunger strike, people spoke about all the things her fight had grown

Another powerful intervention by Paul Scriven🔶️🇺🇦 asking the UK Government: "Over £42 million of UK government spending from 2020 on the Gulf Strategy Fund has failed to demonstrably improve many of the human rights abuses detailed by the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy

As Bahrain’s Crown Prince rushes to the UK seeking British protection amid Israeli aggression against Iran, he should start at home — by freeing tortured political prisoners jailed since 2011. Fix the internal crisis before waking up to an external threat.

14 years ago today, on 22 June 2011, Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja was sentenced to life imprisonment for peacefully calling for human rights in #Bahrain. He was again omitted from the recent #Eid pardons so we raise our voices and call on the UN #HRC59 to take action to #FreeAlKhawaja