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Senior Bahraini Activist Threatened with Rape

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A detained senior Bahraini anti-government activist has been threatened with rape by the security guards after he refused to apologize to the king on camera. Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) issued a statement on Monday on its website, saying Abdulhadi Al Khawaja addressed the court in the third session of his trial that Bahraini ""security forces had tried to force him to make a videotaped apology to the king."

Abudulhadi's daughter, Maryam Al Khawaja, who heads the Foreign Relations Office of BCHR, stated that while her father "tried to explain how they attempted to rape him, the security forces forcefully removed him from the courtroom."

Abdulhadi told his wife during a ten-minute meeting that the security forces then "took him into another room," and said "they were going to rape him."
He added that the Saudi-led Bahraini security forces even threatened that they were going to "rape" his daughter.

Abdulhadi Al Khawaja, a former president of BCHR, was arrested on April 9 and put on trial with 20 other detained activists on alleged charges of attempting to topple the Bahraini government.
The anti-government protesters in Bahrain have been calling for political reforms since February 14, originally demanding a constitutional monarchy and an end to widespread state corruption and discrimination.