Bahraini activist (former president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights) 'assaulted and arrested'

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Source: Al Jazeera English

Plainclothes policemen drag away Abdulhadi Alkhawaja from home amid reports of continuing crackdown on protesters.
Last Modified: April 09 2011 10:21

Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, a prominent Bahraini human rights activist, has reportedly been seized by masked men, thought to be plainclothes policemen, after being beaten unconscious.

Alkhawaja is the former president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights. His reported arrest comes amid a continued crackdown on pro-democracy activists in the tiny Gulf nation.

Zeinab Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, his daughter, told Al Jazeera that police took him from her house - bleeding profusely and unconscious after the beating - in the village of Manama, outside the capital, at around 2am (local time) on Saturday.

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"They did not give any reason ... They were beating him very severely, on the ground, maybe four or five of them, kicking him and hitting him in the face."

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