Families, activists and supporters held a demonstration on on Friday, January 12, 2006, in front of the Bahrain Mall in Sanabis to demand the release of the Leaflet Detainees, Dr. Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahlawi and Hussain AbdulAziz Al Hebshi.
The two prisoners of conscience have been detained since 16 November 2006, on charges of possessing internet-downloaded publications calling for the boycott of the last election, deemed by the government as “subversive literature”. If convicted, they face a prison sentence of upto seven years. For details of this case, see BCHR Ref:07010801.
More photographs from the demonstration are below.
Families, activists and supporters held a demonstration on on Friday, January 12, 2006, in front of the Bahrain Mall in Sanabis to demand the release of the Leaflet Detainees, Dr. Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahlawi and Hussain AbdulAziz Al Hebshi.
The two prisoners of conscience have been detained since 16 November 2006, on charges of possessing internet-downloaded publications calling for the boycott of the last election, deemed by the government as “subversive literature”. If convicted, they face a prison sentence of upto seven years. For details of this case, see BCHR Ref:07010801.
More photographs from the demonstration are below.
