8th anniversary of Day of Rage in Bahrain, London, UK
Add to Cart Add to Lightbox DownloadLondon, UK. 14th February, 2019. Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei kneels outside the Bahrain Embassy with activists from the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) and Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) to mark eight years since the Day of Rage in Bahrain, a movement for democracy and social justice which was crushed by the Bahraini regime with support from the military of Saudi Arabia. Speakers called for the release of political prisoners held in Bahrain and for the UK to stop licensing arms to Bahrain (over £100 million in licences have been granted since the uprising began in February 2011). Alwadaei was granted asylum in the UK in 2012 after being given a six-month sentence by the Bahrain government for his involvement in Arab Spring protests. Bahrain was recently found guilty by a UN body of arbitrarily detaining three of his relatives after he protested in London against a 2017 visit by the King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.
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