Index on Censorship » Bahrain Embassy http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » Bahrain Embassy http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org UK: Activists climb Bahrain Embassy to protest human rights violations and Grand Prix http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/04/uk-activists-climb-bahrain-embassy-to-protest-human-rights-violations-and-grand-prix/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/04/uk-activists-climb-bahrain-embassy-to-protest-human-rights-violations-and-grand-prix/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:37:35 +0000 Alice Purkiss http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=35252 Two activists climbed to the roof of the Bahrain embassy in London yesterday. Prominent opposition activist Ali Mushaima was joined by Moosa Abdali  to protest human rights violations in Bahrain, ahead of this weekend’s controversial Grand Prix. The pair scaled scaffolding on a neighbouring building in Belgrave Square. Mushaima claimed he was protesting in solidarity with two of the [...]

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]]> climbed to the roof of the Bahrain embassy in London yesterday. Prominent opposition activist Ali Mushaima was joined by Moosa Abdali  to protest human rights violations in Bahrain, ahead of this weekend’s controversial Grand Prix. The pair scaled scaffolding on a neighbouring building in Belgrave Square. Mushaima claimed he was protesting in solidarity with two of the country’s political prisoners, his father Shi’a politician Hassan Mushaima, and prominent activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja. The activist criticised the decision to allow the Grand Prix to go ahead at the weekend, saying by doing so, Formula 1 supports “dictatorship, torture and repression.”

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