UN Special Rapporteur Reiterates His Call to Bahrain to Release Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja being "Prisoner of Conscience"

2023-10-08 - 7:43 م

Bahrain Mirror: UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Clement Nyaletsossi Voule, reiterated his call to Bahrain to release human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, being a "prisoner of conscience".

Nyaletsossi said in a video posted by the "Bahrain Center for Human Rights" on the "X" platform that "In February 2023, my colleagues and I raised our concern to Bahrain government about the detention of Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja who was arrested in April 2011 for participating in the peaceful protest requesting political reform."

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