Article 3JTRJ My wife has been sentenced to jail in Bahrain. She lives in the UK | Sayed Alwadaei

My wife has been sentenced to jail in Bahrain. She lives in the UK | Sayed Alwadaei

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Sayed Alwadaei
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I fled Bahrain during the Arab spring, but my wife, and her family in Bahrain, are being punished for my human rights protests in London - why won't the UK act?

Yesterday was Mother's Day in Bahrain. And it was yesterday that my wife, Duaa Alwadaei, the beloved mother of my two children, was handed a prison sentence. Not because she committed any crime, but because I protested in London when the King of Bahrain visited Downing Street in 2016. She is not the only one to face reprisals because of my human rights activism in London. Her mother, brother and cousin all languish in Bahrain's notorious prisons. Tortured and convicted after a flawed trial.

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