Bahrain Mirror: Head of the Monitoring and documentation department at the European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights (EBOHR), activist Fatima Al-Halwachi, was summoned by the Al-Hidd police station on Monday (March 7, 2016).

The summons, a copy which Bahrain Mirror managed to get, stated that the authorities requested Al-Halwachi's presence at office no. 8 at Al-Hidd police station at 8:30 am, adding that the reason for the summoning is report no. 554 of 2016.

It is noteworthy that detained activist Khalil Al-Halwachi is Fatima's father, who is being held at Dry Dock Prison and tried over politically-motivated charges.

The authorities haven't stopped targeting activists, including human rights defenders, bloggers and Shiite clerics, since the popular protests were crushed in March 2011 by the Bahraini regime, backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

The Shiite majority in the island kingdom protests against discrimination and marginalization, and says it aims at putting an end to the monopoly over power by the ruling Al Khalifa family, which belongs to the Sunni minority.

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