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"I constantly fear the phone call bearing the message that I will never see my father again. I cannot imagine a life without my father, and I cannot come to terms with a world that would allow my father to die."
"Today, April 5th, is my father's birthday." Born in 1962, he turned 50. "Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, the man who dedicated himself to fighting for human rights, who trained tens of other activists, is known as the Godfather of human rights in Bahrain."
"My father, who was beaten unconscious in front of his family, arrested, then severely tortured for months. My father, sentenced to life imprisonment in a military court. My father, on his 57th day of hunger strike as his only way of protesting the daily human rights violations of the Bahraini regime against the people of Bahrain."
"My father, Abdulhadi Alkhawaja is dying to live. Literally."
"This is what propels my activism. This is why I will continue to fight."
Throughout the Middle East, Western world, and elsewhere, many thousands are wrongfully imprisoned and brutalized under gulag conditions.
US prisons notoriously commit torture and other abuses. They include beatings, dog attacks, cattle prod shocking, tasering, toxic chemical use, painful shackling, middle of the night forced cell and strip searches, rapes, and numerous other types of gratuitous viciousness.
Serious injuries, trauma, and deaths result. Welcome to Guantanamo mainland. America's gulag is the world's largest by far. Again, major media scoundrel say nothing.
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