Outside the Bahraini Embassy, Mushaima also expressed his gratitude towards MPs such as Caroline Lucas and Ian Blackford for raising his father’s case
Bahrain: Ali Mushaima vows to continue fighting for his imprisoned father
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Authors send letter to His Royal Highness Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Leading writers including Margaret Atwood, Elif Shafak and Claire Tomalin have signed an open letter to the king of Bahrain urging him to intervene in the case of a political prisoner being denied the right to read in jail.
Happy birthday Nabeel!
Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab is spending his third birthday in prison. Send him a birthday message on Twitter or Facebook
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.
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.
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
“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
UN declares Nabeel Rajab’s imprisonment unlawful, warns arbitrary detention in Bahrain may amount to “crimes against humanity”
It finds that Rajab should never have been prosecuted and that Bahraini authorities employed “vague and overly broad” legal provisions to target him for his “political views and convictions”
Bahrain court acquits leading opposition leader
Bahrain’s High Criminal Court acquitted the leader of Bahrain’s dissolved opposition party Al-Wefaq, Sheikh Ali Salman, of politically motivated charges related to espionage.