Alwaght- Manama security forces ban weekly family visits for an imprisoned activist, Bahrain Mirror news site reported on Wednesday.
The imprisoned activist, Khalil al-Halwachi was denied a prescheduled family visit in notorious Dry Dock Prison before authorities said he was banned all such visits.
Security forces prevented him from going to the visit hall after his family had arrived at the prison.
His daughter said they told us my father "was not brought to the visiting hall because he is banned from visits, without presenting reasons".
"After waiting outside the main gate to meet one of the officials regarding preventing Khalil Al-Halwachi from his rights to visits, I was told that it is an administrative ban as a kind of punishment," she added.
Bahraini regime started a new round of pressure on the country’s civil society by detaining scores of activists and opposition figures and at the same time increasing pressure on those already in jail.
Bahrain, a close ally of the United States in the Persian Gulf region, has seen a wave of anti-regime protests since mid-February 2011. Scores of people have been killed and hundreds of others wounded or detained in Manama’s ongoing crackdown.
Troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were deployed in March that year to assist Manama in crushing the protests.
