Blog Number 12: 27 Year Old Mother goes on Hunger Strike in Hopes that Officials Will Release Her Family

Colleen Mills

10:30 PM

15 April 2011

The 27 year old mother of a baby girl is also the daughter of a prominent rights activist of the Bahraini opposition. Today was the fourth day of her hunger strike in an attempt to have her father, her brother-in-law, husband and uncle who were all carried away by police earlier in the week. She said that ‘armed masked men’ came into her father’s house on Saturday and beat him until he lay unconscious and then carried him away. He was detained for documenting human rights abuses in Bahrain and the other men were detained for supporting such documentation. All of the arrests were made in Manama.

Along with these men, 30 doctors and 150 health ministry workers have also been arrested for supporting anti-government protests and working for their people’s rights.

Saudi Arabia has also attempted to cease the protest by allowing their troops to enter in Manama.

The Bahrain government has been facing troubling times as the people have been protesting, more often than not peacefully, for their rights and a future of constitutional monarchy and a voice in their government.

This is a global social problem because Saudi Arabia has entered the situation. The human rights violations are just a small example of how many countries in the Middle East are working for democracy and are either extremely successful or failing miserably. It appears that the people of Manama are failing miserably. With the end goal of a constitutional monarchy in sight, I hope the people of Manama don’t give up their fight.

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