Alwaght- Bahraini human rights activist, Zainab al-Khawaja, has left Bahrain Monarchy for Denmark after the Regime was preparing files to imprison her indefinitely.
Shortly after she was released from jail, fearing being caught again by the Regime she departed the Persian Gulf Monarchy for Denmark with her two children where she has citizenship.
In her Twitter messages, Zainab said the Al Khalifah regime was preparing to file new charges against her, which would have made her detention “indefinite.”
“The regime that thinks exile means moving us away from our land should know, we carry Bahrain in our hearts wherever we go,” she twitted before her departure.
The 32-year-old activist was taken to custody with her 17-month-old boy for tearing up a poster of Bahrain's king, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. Her father, Abdulhadi, is already serving a life sentence for encouraging peaceful protest.
Bahraini authorities had rejected a request by al-Khawaja to allow toddler out of jail, Zainab was suffering from a severe flu and could not take care of her son. Prison authorities had even refused to let Khawaja’s mother, Khadija al-Mousawi, see her grandson.
She is the daughter of leading human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who is serving a life sentence in connection to his influential role in the 2011 protests against the Al Khalifa regime.
Human rights groups frequently condemn the Bahraini regime over the flagrant violation of human rights and heavy handedness in dealing with anti-regime protesters.
Five years after massive protests erupted for reform in Bahrain, the country is still the scene of demonstrations with calls rising on the Al Khalifah to relinquish power. More than a hundred people have been killed while hundreds more, including notable opposition figures, Sheikh Ali Salman, remain behind bars in what human rights campaigners say is Manama’s lack of tolerance for dissent.
Amnesty International and many other rights groups have repeatedly censured the Bahraini regime for the “rampant” human rights abuses against opposition activists and protesters.
