Bahrain bars three rights activists from leaving country

Bahraini authorities have prevented three human rights activists from traveling abroad as part of the Ale Khalifa regime’s efforts to keep the world in the dark about the deteriorating situation of human rights in the country.

According to Press TV, the Bahrain Observatory for Human Rights (BOHR) reported on Friday that lawyer Mohammad al-Tajer, President of the Bahraini Transparency Association Sharaf Al-Moussawi, and member of Bahrain Human Rights Society Zeinab Khamis were barred from leaving Bahrain earlier in the day despite the fact that no official travel ban had been issued against them.

The BOHR said that Khamis was kept waiting at the King Fahd Causeway, which connects Bahrain to Saudi Arabia, for nearly an hour before being sent back.

The report comes as Amnesty International and the European Parliament have separately called on the Bahraini regime to release prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab and drop all charges against him.

“Parading a human rights defender like Nabeel Rajab in front of a court over tweets is a shameless attack on freedom of expression and is a further stain on Bahrain’s already appalling human rights record,” Philip Luther, the Director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at Amnesty International, said on Thursday.

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