A daughter of prominent Bahraini rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja is planning to return to the Gulf state on Friday, risking her arrest as she presses for her father's release from prison, rights groups said. Khawaja, also a Danish citizen, is a former president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights and is serving a life sentence for his role in Bahrain's pro-democracy protests in 2011. His daughter Maryam said she would travel to Bahrain because her father was denied access to urgent and critical medical treatment, part of the reason why he is on hunger strike.
A daughter of prominent Bahraini rights activist, Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, said on Friday she was denied boarding a flight in London as she tried to return to the Gulf State and.
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