Zaynab Al-Khawaja recalled in a series of Tweets the night her father, prisoner of conscience Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, was arrested 11 years ago.

Dublin-based human rights group Front Line Defenders has called for releasing Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja and transferring him to Ireland on medical grounds.

The situation of Bahraini prisoner of conscience Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja has dramatically worsened since the prison administration imposed a series of punitive measures against him, including denying him contact with his family last week, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement expressing grave concern.

Human rights activist, Maryam Al-Khawaja, daughter of detained human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, said that her father chanted slogans against Israel and in support with the Palestinian people while being in Jaw Prison's yard.

Human rights defender and prisoner of conscience, Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, won the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders.

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and over a dozen human rights groups are working together on a public campaign and related advocacy for the release of prisoners of conscience.

29 MPs in the British House of Commons signed a motion to express solidarity with detained academic Abduljalil Al-Singace, who is on hunger strike in the regime's prisons. The motion demanded the release of prisoners of conscience and imposition of Magnitsky Act Sanctions on those responsible for his unlawful imprisonment.

Bahraini activist Zaynab Al-Khawaj announced via her Twitter account that her father "just called" and "told us he has ended his hunger strike".

Human rights activist Zaynab Al-Khawaja wrote a series of tweets about the condition of her father, the leading human rights defender and prisoner of conscience, who is on hunger strike in the regime's prions.

Prominent human rights activist Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja announced launching a hunger strike against preventing him from calling his family. Calls are the only means he can use to stay in contact with his family after visits were stopped due to Coronavirus.

Human rights activist Maryam Al-Khawaja said that her father, Abdulhadi Al-Khawaj, human rights activist who is sentenced to life imprisonment, had submitted a letter to the Interior Ministry's Sentence Execution Directorate to take advantage of the alternative penalty code.

A UN expert called on Bahrain to immediately release three human rights defenders suffering long term detention as a result of their legitimate promotion and protection of human rights in the country.

14 MPs in the UK Parliament sent an urgent letter to Britain's foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, urging him to pressure on the Bahraini government to release political prisoners.

118 international and Bahraini rights groups called for renewing efforts to secure the immediate and unconditional release of a prominent human rights defender and dual Danish-Bahraini citizen.

The Government of Bahrain responded to the statement made by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark on the prominent human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja during the Human Rights Council session in Geneva.

Front Line Defenders organized a sit-in in front of the European Parliament in the Belgium capital, Brussels, demanding that the European Union press Bahrain to release imprisoned human rights defenders in Bahrain, namely former Middle East and North Africa Protection Co-ordinator for Front Line Defenders, Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja.

The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the US Congress urged Bahraini authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Bahraini human rights activist Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja.

Bahraini activist Maryam Al-Khawaja accused the European Union of practicing discrimination against her father in dealing with prisoners of conscience cases, in particular those who hold European nationalities.

U.S. Congressman James P. McGovern, Co-Chair of the bipartisan Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the U.S. issued a statement in which he condemned the April 4th decision by the Bahraini government to deny entry to the country to Lars Aslan Rasmussen, a Danish Member of Parliament, and Brian Dooley, senior advisor at Human Rights First, claiming the two posed a "security risk."

A rights group says Bahrain has denied entry to a Danish lawmaker and a European rights activist who were attempting to enter the country to visit a detained Bahraini-Danish citizen.