EU Partnership Talks with Bahrain Should Seek Activists’ Release

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Click to expand Image Abdulhadi al-Khawaja (left) and Mohamed Habib al-Muqdad. © Bahrain Centre for human rights/Wikimedia and Private For over 15 years, Danish human rights defender Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and Swedish activist Mohamed Habib al-Muqdad have been languishing in Bahrain’s prisons, as their governments and the European Union (EU) have failed to secure their release from unjust detention.

As the EU launched  negotiations for a “Strategic Partnership Agreement” with Bahrain in July, it should use them to ensure that al-Khawaja, al-Muqdad and…

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Primary source: Human Rights Watch News · September 3, 2026

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