Deputy president of (dissolved) Bahrain Teachers Association Jalila Al-Salman received Mary Hatwood Futrell award during a ceremony held in Bangkok, Thailand, on Thursday (July 25, 2019), on sideline of Education International world congress.

Mahdi Abu Deeb, President of the dissolved Bahrain Teachers’ Association (BTA), won the International Solidarity Award for 2017, granted by the largest teachers’ union in the UK, NASUWT. Abu Deeb spent 5 years in prison after a Bahraini court ruled against him.

President of (dissolved) Bahrain Teachers’ Association and former detainee Mahdi Abu Deeb said that Kuwait prevented him from entering its territories through the airport on Monday (November 28, 2016) night, without presenting any justifications.

Human Rights Watch condemned crack down on the dissidents in the Gulf States, particularly through surveilling their activism on the Internet and called on the government of these states to resort to making reforms instead of imprisoning the peaceful dissidents.

Bahrain Teachers’ Association President Mahdi Abu Deeb said “there are 400 students that are detained and deprived from the right to education.”