This woman ripped up a photo of Bahrain’s king and will have to serve 5 years in jail

The al-Khawaja family bugs the Bahraini monarchy. This week, a judge in Bahrain increased the prison sentence of Zainab al-Khawaja, 30, a human rights activist and mother of two, to more than five years, partly on a charge of ripping up a photo of Bahrain’s king. Bahraini authorities have imprisoned her human rights activist father […]









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