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Abdulhadi Abdulla Hubail al-Khawaja ((アラビア語:عبد الهادي عبد الله حبيل الخواجة)) is a Bahraini-Danish human rights activist. He is currently in prison in Bahrain following the suppression of pro-democracy protests in the Bahraini uprising. He is former president and co-founder〔 of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), a nonprofit non-governmental organisation which works to promote human rights in Bahrain.〔(Bahrain Center for Human Rights website ). Retrieved 17 May 2011〕 He has held a number of positions and played various roles in regional and international human rights organizations. On 9 April 2011, al-Khawaja was arrested and tried as part of a campaign of repression by the Bahraini authorities following pro-democracy protests in the Bahraini uprising. Front Line Defenders expressed fear for his life following allegations of torture and sexual assault in detention. Al-Khawaja was sentenced on 22 June 2011, along with eight other activists, to life imprisonment.〔 On 8 February 2012, he started an open-ended hunger strike until "freedom or death", protesting continuing detentions in Bahrain.〔http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1647079/QA-Bahraini-activist-Maryam-Al-Khawaja〕 The strike lasted for 110 days, and resulted in his being force-fed by authorities.〔 Until February 2011, al-Khawaja was the Middle East and North Africa Protection Coordinator with Front Line Defenders – the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders.〔("Bahrain: International trial observer refused entry – serious concern for the health and safety of Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja", Front Line, 13 May 2011 ). Retrieved 11 July 2011.〕 He is also a member of the International Advisory Network in the Business and Human Rights Resource Center chaired by Mary Robinson,〔("About us", International Advisory Network ). Retrieved 11 July 2011.〕 former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Al-Khawaja is a member of the Advisory Board of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies〔〔("About us", Damascus Center for Human Rights studies ). Retrieved 11 July 2011.〕 and also an expert adviser for and member of the coordinating committee of The Arab Group for Monitoring Media Performance monitoring the media in Bahrain and six other Arab countries.〔〔("The Arab Working Group for Media Monitoring (AWG-MM) condemns the aggressions on journalists in SYRIA , YEMEN , BAHRAIN and LIBYA", The Arab Working Group for Media Monitoring ). Retrieved 11 July 2011.〕 Al-Khawaja was part of Amnesty International’s fact-finding mission in Iraq,〔 and has been a researcher and project consultant for Amnesty International and other international organizations.〔 His human rights campaigning activities have been acknowledged by the International Conference of Human Rights Defenders in Dublin, and he was named by the Arab Program for Human Rights Defenders as its Regional Activist of 2005.〔 == Early life == After finishing high school in Bahrain in 1977, al-Khawaja traveled to the UK to continue his further education. In 1979, he took part in student activities in London in reaction to demonstrations and arrests in Bahrain. Many students abroad, including al-Khawaja, were denied renewal of their passports and asked to return home. In the summer of 1980, after fellow students had been detained and interrogated under torture for their activities in London and his family’s house had been ransacked and searched, al-Khawaja, fearing detention if he went back to Bahrain, decided to remain abroad.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abdulhadi al-Khawaja」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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