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HRW Calls on EU, US Action to Liberate Bahraini Activist from Jail

Fri Mar 25, 2016 13:24:09

Human Rights Watch has called on the European Union and the US to help release Zainab al-Khawaja, a prominent Bahraini activist and political dissident who was taken into custody by the monarchy's security forces earlier this month.

Bahrain Al-Khalifa Targeting Opposition Families, Unjust Trials

Sat Oct 24, 2015 18:11:42

An appeals court in Bahrain has upheld a prison sentence handed down to prominent female activist Zainab Al-Khawaja, after she tore down a photograph of the king.

Beware of the Middle East's fake feminists

Fri Oct 25, 2013 10:45:03

We've all heard the story before: those Arab dictators may be mad with power, but at least they end up treating women better than Islamists do. The Arab world is sorted into states that are good-to-women and bad-to-women, with countries from Morocco to Qatar getting a pass for their supposed progressivism when it comes to feminist issues.