Human Rights Foundation intervenes for two prominent Human Rights Defenders

September 6, 2014
On 5 September 2014) the Human Rights Foundation issued a statement condemning the arbitrary arrests of two outstanding human rights defenders: Maryam al-Khawaja, co-director of the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR), and Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, president of the Association for the Protection of Human Rights and Detained Persons (APRODH), and calls on the governments of Bahrain and Burundi to release them immediately.Al-Khawaja was detained last week by Bahraini authorities as she arrived to the island kingdom to visit her father, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, a political prisoner currently on hunger strike.see:  https://thoolen.wordpress.com/2014/09/01/human-rights-defender-maryam-al-khawaja-stopped-at-bahrain-airport-may-appear-in-court-tomorrow/Mbonimpa – 2007 Laureate of the MEA – was jailed in May as part of a pre-election crackdown after criticizing Burundi’s ruling party on a radio program. see: https://thoolen.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/alert-mea-laureate-2007-pierre-claver-mbonimpa-arrested-in-burundi/

To see and hear the HRDs speak at the the 2011 and 2010 Oslo Freedom Forums, click the link below:

HRF Calls for the Immediate Release of Two Prominent Oslo Freedom Forum Speakers | News | The Human Rights Foundation.

This entry was posted on September 6, 2014 at 10:51 and is filed under human rights, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights Foundation.

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