{"id":81504,"date":"2022-01-18T15:11:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T15:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=81504"},"modified":"2022-01-18T15:11:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T15:11:40","slug":"rights-groups-urge-us-to-press-for-prominent-bahraini-prisoners-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/81504-rights-groups-urge-us-to-press-for-prominent-bahraini-prisoners-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights groups urge US to press for prominent Bahraini prisoner&#8217;s release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"694\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f2-\u06f0\u06f1-\u06f1\u06f7_\u06f2\u06f3-\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f1\u06f2-1024x694.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f2-\u06f0\u06f1-\u06f1\u06f7_\u06f2\u06f3-\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f1\u06f2-1024x694.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f2-\u06f0\u06f1-\u06f1\u06f7_\u06f2\u06f3-\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f1\u06f2-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f2-\u06f0\u06f1-\u06f1\u06f7_\u06f2\u06f3-\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f1\u06f2-768x521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f2-\u06f0\u06f1-\u06f1\u06f7_\u06f2\u06f3-\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f1\u06f2-220x150.jpg 220w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f2-\u06f0\u06f1-\u06f1\u06f7_\u06f2\u06f3-\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f1\u06f2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Dozens of human rights groups have called on the US and other western governments to advocate for the release of prominent Bahraini opposition figure Abduljalil al-Singace, who has been on a hunger strike in prison for nearly 200 days.<br>The letter, seen by Middle East Eye, was sent on Monday to the US State Department and called on the administration to raise concerns with Bahraini officials of Singace&#8217;s &#8220;inadequate medical treatment&#8221;, as well as concerns over the confiscation of his research.<br>&#8216;This is a test case on how the US reacts to their closest allies when they infringe upon human rights&#8217;<br>&#8220;The United States has claimed to be centering human rights in its foreign policy but they have yet to call for the release of Dr. Al-Singace,&#8221; said Husain Abdulla, a Bahraini exile who founded Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB).<br>The letter was sent by ADHRB, the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (Bird), Amnesty International, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and 23 other groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of human rights groups have called on the US and other western governments to advocate for the release of prominent Bahraini opposition figure Abduljalil al-Singace, who has been on a hunger strike in prison for nearly 200 days.The letter, seen by Middle East Eye, was sent on Monday to the US State Department and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":81509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,31],"tags":[2473,2489],"class_list":["post-81504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bahrain","category-islam","category-news","tag-bahraini-prisoner","tag-rights"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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