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August 12, 2013

Bahraini Activist Maryam Alkhawaja Barred from Flying Home 
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Bahrain has barred leading human rights activist Maryam Alkhawaja from
entering the country amid a government crackdown ahead of pro-democracy
protests planned for this week. On Friday, British Airways blocked
Alkhawaja from boarding a flight home due to a request from the Bahraini
government. Alkhawaja is acting president of the Bahrain Center for
Human Rights, which released a statement saying she wanted to visit
Bahrain in order to help monitor the situation on the ground and to see
her father and sister, activists Abdulhadi and Zainab Alkhawaja, who are
both in prison. Click here to see our recent interview with Maryam
Alkhawaja.

 

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