Right to Education? Not in Bahrain, Protest and go to Jail

Bahrain: One-person protest for education and employment leads to arrest
19 January, 2013 – Bahrain Center for Human Rights

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its concern over the continued restrictions placed on freedom of expression in Bahrain. In two different incidents, citizens were arrested after staging one-person protest demanding basic rights.

On 16 January 2013, Zainab Abduali Taraif (20), an honors university student, was arrested after she stood silently near the financial harbor, holding a banner with her academic results and honor certificates, to protest against her second expulsion from the University of Bahrain for what she described as “false charges”. Zainab was one of over hundred students previously expelled in 2011 following the crackdown on protests. The reinstatement of the students was one of the recommendations suggested by the Bahraini Commission of Inquiry (BICI) in November 2011, and though most of them were indeed reinstated, several were expelled again in October 2012. …more