{"id":19784,"date":"2014-02-17T10:50:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T17:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19784"},"modified":"2014-02-17T10:50:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T17:50:44","slug":"defiance-stands-her-ground-one-year-of-prison-is-nothing-we-have-a-cause-this-will-not-stop-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19784","title":{"rendered":"Defiance Stands Her Ground; “One year of prison is nothing, We have a cause… This will not stop us.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Activist Zainab al-Khawaja, jailed daughter of Bahraini human rights activist, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja<\/a>, freed
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\nBy REEM KHALIFA – Associated Press – 16 February, 2014<\/p>\n

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) \u2014 Bahraini activist Zainab al-Khawaja was released from prison on Sunday after nearly a year behind bars for multiple convictions including participation in an illegal gathering.<\/p>\n

Friends and supporters greeted her in a coffee shop in a main mall hours after her release. The cafe has served as a gathering point for activists since the small island-nation’s Arab Spring-inspired uprising.<\/p>\n

“One year of prison is nothing,” she told journalists defiantly after her release. “We have a cause… This will not stop us.”<\/p>\n

Bahrain’s majority Shiites have led a three-year uprising seeking a greater political voice in the Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom, which is home to the US Navy’s 5th Fleet.<\/p>\n

Al-Khawaja, who is popular online and on Twitter, said international attention should focus on an estimated 3,000 prisoners believed to be behind bars in Bahrain on politically related charges.<\/p>\n

Her father is prominent human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who is among several opposition figures who are serving life sentences. He drew attention to his imprisonment with a lengthy hunger strike in 2012.<\/p>\n

Her lawyer Mohammed al-Wasti said she still faces two trials, one this month and one next month, on charges that include damaging police property, defacing a picture of Bahrain’s king and insulting a police officer. …source<\/a><\/p>\n

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