Leading Bahrain 'activist' beaten and arrested

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Interesting how he is not called a 'rebel'.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13023428
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Security forces in Bahrain have arrested and beaten one of the country's leading human rights activists, his daughter says.

The activist, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, was seized in the middle of the night and taken away with his two sons-in-law.

It is the latest in a series of violent night-time arrests of opposition activists, say human rights workers.

The Bahraini government accuses them of inciting unrest and trying to divide the Sunni and Shia Muslim communities.

Mr al-Khawaja's daughter says in the very early hours of Saturday morning up to 20 armed and masked policemen broke down the door of their apartment and began attacking her father.
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Don't expect a humanitarian invasion! The attackers are Western friends.