Maryam al-Khawaja

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Maryam Abdulhadi al-Khawaja

Maryam Abdulhadi al-Khawaja (مريم عبد الهادي الخواجة, DMG Maryam ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Ḫawāǧa ; Born June 26, 1987 in Damascus , Syria ) is a Bahraini human rights activist. She is the daughter of the Bahraini human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja ; Khadija Almousawi is her mother. She is the Vice President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights ; she has served as president since Nabeel Rajab's arrest .

Life

Al-Khawaja was born in Syria, where her father was exiled in the mid-1980s. When she was two years old, her family managed to obtain political asylum in Denmark. They lived there until 2001 when they were allowed to return to Bahrain.

After graduating from the University of Bahrain in 2009 (BA in English Literature and American Studies), al-Khawaja spent a year at Brown University on a Fulbright scholarship . When she returned to Bahrain in mid-2010, she was unable to find a job (which she was looking for in public relations or education) because her father is and was known as a government critic.

She eventually became active in the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, of which her father is one of the founders. There she took over the management of the office for foreign relations.

On February 14, 2011 protests and demonstrations began in Bahrain (part of the Arab Spring ). On June 22, 2011, a military court sentenced her father to life imprisonment for activities in the context of these protests (the verdict speaks of "organizing and running a terrorist organization").

On March 4, 2013, it was announced that she was one of 209 nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Staff writer: Maryam Al-Khawaja , Oslo Freedom Forum. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved July 17, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oslofreedomforum.com 
  2. ^ A b Karen Leigh: The Atlantic: Exiled and 24: The Young Woman Fighting for Bahrain . In: The Atlantic , June 29, 2011. Retrieved July 13, 2011. 
  3. Martin Chulov: Bahrain rights activists jailed for life . In: Online Article . Guardian. Retrieved on 2/16/2012.
  4. welt.de: Candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize 2013 nominated