URGENT ACTION:After Being Sentenced to Life Imprisonment Mr.Alkhawaja gets Beaten after He Speaks in Court
\nJune 23rd, 2011 – BYSHR<\/p>\n
URGENT ACTION:<\/p>\n
After Being Sentenced to Life Imprisonment Mr.Alkhawaja gets Beaten after He Speaks in Court
\nReports that other Activist Sentenced were beaten as well after Speaking<\/p>\n
The Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR) expresses its deep concern after receiving confirmed reports from a reliable source that Mr. Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, Former MENA Coordinator of Frontline Defenders and Former President of the Bahrain Centre for Human rights (BCHR), was beaten severely after court yesterday (22 June 2011). Mr. Alkhawaja\u2019s daughter who had attended the trial had previously tweeted:<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter the sentence was read, my father raised his fist & shouted \u201cWE SHALL CONTINUE ON THE PATH OF PEACEFUL RESISTANCE!\u201d they started violently shoving my father out of the court room.\u201d<\/p>\n
The BYSHR has learned that Mr. Alkhawaja was beaten severely, mostly to his face that is still healing from 4 fractures sustained from the brutal beating he received during his arrest as well as in the incident when he had banged it against the floor to avoid being sexually assaulted in detention. …more<\/a><\/p>\n