Bahrain Center for Human Rights receives human rights award | Al Akhbar English
27.9.13
Bahrain Center for Human Rights receives human rights award | Al Akhbar English: The Bahrain Center for Human Rights, whose founder and director are both jailed, won Norway's Rafto Prize for rights defenders Thursday for its fight against repression in the Gulf state.
The award would "turn the spotlight on systematic violations of human rights in a region where abuse is too often met with silence from Western governments," the Rafto Foundation said in a statement.
The founder and director of the Bahrain center are both currently serving prison sentences, illustrating the severe repression in the small nation which is a close US ally.
The founder of the center, Abdul Hadi al-Khawaja, is serving a life sentence in jail after he and several other leading opposition figures were convicted of plotting to overthrow the monarchy.
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