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Officials bar rights activist from leaving Bahrain

Officials bar rights activist from leaving Bahrain


Press TV- Bahraini authorities have prevented a human rights activist from traveling abroad in the latest restrictions imposedby the ruling Al Khalifah regime on the movement of political dissidents.

Deputy secretary general of the European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights, Fatima al-Halwaji, was stopped at the airport on Wednesday. It was not clear where she was heading.

Authorities informed her that she could not travel abroad based on an order issued by the public prosecutors office, Arabic-languageLualua television network reported.

The order read that Halwaji had been slapped with a travel ban on charges of spreading false news through social media networks, it said.

It came four days after Bahrains Unitary National Democratic Assemblagesaid officials had prevented human rights activist Monzer al-Khor from leaving the country through theKing Fahd Causeway, which connects Bahrain to Saudi Arabia.



[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Bahraini human rights activist Monzer al-Khor[/caption]

Enas Oun, head of the Monitoring and Documentation Department at the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), was also prevented from attendinga human rights workshop in Tunisia on August 22.

In July, lawyer Mohammad al-Tajer, president of the Bahraini Transparency Association Sharaf al-Moussawi, and Zeinab Khamis of Bahrain Human Rights Society were barred from leaving the country.

Anti-regime protests are almost a daily occurrence in Bahrain wherea popular uprising hit the country on February 14, 2011. Protestersare demanding that theAl Khalifahdynastyrelinquish power.

Troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been deployed to the tiny kingdom to assist in thecrackdown.

Scores of people have lost their lives and hundreds of others been injured. The regime has also arrested and jailed hundreds of protesters and political leaders, subjecting themto torture and other abuse, according to rights groups.

The US and the UK are among close allies of Bahrain which is home to the 5th American naval fleet.

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