Abdulhadi al-Khawaja

Abdulhadi Abdulla Hubail Alkhawaja is a Bahraini-Danish human rights activists. He is now in prison in Bahrain after the Bahraini uprising. He is the former president and co-founder of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR).  This is a nonprofit non-governmental group which works to promote human rights in Bahrain.Bahrain Center for Human Rights website , accessed 17 May 2011

On 9 April 2011, Al Khawaja was arrested. Al Khawaja was given life imprisonment on 22 June 2011."Bahrain rights activists jailed for life", The Guardian, 22 June 2011. Retrieved 22 June 2011. On 8 February 2012, he started a hunger strike until "freedom or death".

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Category:1961 births
Category:Living people
Category:Bahraini activists
Category:Danish activists
Category:Human rights activists
Category:Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment