Fw: Front Line Defenders Electronic Press Release on Abdulhadi Al Khawaja
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Appeal to Court of Cassation Filed in Abdulhadi Al Khawaja's Case in Bahrain Front Line Defenders Demands Immediate Release of Abdulhadi Al Khawaja From Detention Dublin, Ireland, October 27, 2011 – As lethal force and suppression by security forces continue to be used against civilian protesters in Bahrain, the legal proceedings involving human rights defender Abdulhadi Al Khawaja move to the Court of Cassation. Today, Abdulhadi's lawyers filed an appeal to the Court to apply for a legal review of the proceedings of the National Safety Court, which sentenced Abdulhadi to life in prison, despite a patently unfair trial and without minimum provisions for his lawyer to defend him. Front Line Defenders renews its call to the Bahraini authorities to release Abdulhadi Al Khawaja and other human rights defenders from detention pending the legal review and to drop the charges against Abdulhadi Abdulhadi Al Khawaja was one of 21 human