Urgent Appeal: Daughter of Abdulhadi Alkhawaja and internationally known hunger striker summoned to police station

Urgent Appeal – Protection of Zainab Alkhawaja, daughter of imprisoned Bahrain Huamn Rights Defender Abdulhadi Alkhawaja.

In alarming news and despite promises of reform by the King, Zainab Alkhawaja (known on twitter as @angryarabiya) has been summoned to the police station tomorrow at 6pm. Zainab Alkhawaja went on a 10 day hungerstrike in response to her father,
uncle, husband and brother in law getting arrested. read more here Her hunger strike received worldwide media attention. Her father and uncle are now undergoing a military, trial. read more here. Her husband and brother in law are still in detention with no access to lawyers or family, and it is unknown under what charges they are being kept or their location.

The summoning raises great concern as her father, Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, told his family a few days ago that security forces inside the prison kept threatening that they had arrested and raped his daughter Zainab. Therefore this is an urgent appeal for international pressure to prevent any physical or psychological harm to Zainab Al-khawaja.