The son of one of Bahrain’s most prominent political prisoners has ended his hunger strike outside the Bahraini embassy in London after 15 British MPs agreed to take up his father’s case.
Ali Mushaima, the exiled son of Bahraini opposition leader Hassan Mushaima, said after ending his hunger strike on Thursday that he is glad to be home with his family after 64 days sleeping rough on the pavement outside the Bahraini embassy in London.
He dedicated the last night of his hunger strike to all Bahraini political prisoners.
Ali Mushaima decided to end his strike after 15 British MPs wrote a letter to Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt demanding that he “condemn the appalling treatment of Hassan Mushaima … a prisoner of conscience that is being denied basic human rights.”
Former Bahraini MP Hassan Mushaima is languishing in one of Bahrain’s most notorious prisons. He was in the United Kingdom for medical reasons when the Bahraini…