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Bahraini hunger striker returns to protest after being hospitalised
Bahraini campaigner Ali Mushaima is returning to his protest site outside the Bahrain embassy in Knightsbridge, London, 24 hours after being hospitalised.
This week at Index: Remembering Anna Politkovskaya
This week Index remembered murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya and spoke out in support of human rights in Bahrain and Turkey.
Bahraini activist Ali Mushaima hospitalised
Bahraini activist Ali Mushaima was hospitalised after completing one month of his hunger strike outside the Bahrain Embassy in London to protest the inhuman treatment of his 70-year-old father, political prisoner Hassan Mushaima, while serving a life sentence in Bahrain.
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Bahraini government must immediately release Nabeel Rajab
Rights groups call for immediate release of Nabeel Rajab after UN group calls his detention arbitrary and discriminatory
A permanent state of emergency by any name is no substitute for respecting human rights
Index on Censorship joins call for Turkey’s government to end the state of emergency by withdrawing recently passed legislation that replicates many of the state of emergency’s special provisions
“I am writing to ask Your Majesty to help me save the life of my 70-year-old father”
As Ali Mushaima enters the 4th week of his hunger strike to save his imprisoned father, Hassan Mushaima, he writes a letter to Queen Elizabeth, urging her to intervene on behalf of his father to ensure that his basic needs are met.
Bahrain must allow medical care for all prisoners of conscience
Index on Censorship joins call for Bahrain’s government to address denial of medical care to Hassan Mushaima
Integrity 20: Inconvenient ideas and how to disagree
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This week at Index: UN declares Nabeel Rajab’s imprisonment unlawful
From Bahrain to Equatorial Guinea to the UK, these are the issues that Index has been working on this week.
Index on Censorship at the Battle of Ideas
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