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Bahrain Activist Zainab Alkhawaja Released from Prison

HeadlineMay 30, 2012

In news from Bahrain, the pro-democracy activist Zainab Alkhawaja has been released from prison after a month behind bars. Alkhawaja was jailed in April protesting the imprisonment of her father, Abdulhadi Alkhawaja. Zainab’s release comes one day after the elder Alkhawaja ended a more than three-month hunger strike.

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