{"id":1213710,"date":"2023-09-15T14:43:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T14:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2023\/sep\/15\/bahraini-human-rights-defender-stopped-from-travelling-to-kingdom-to-visit-imprisoned-father"},"modified":"2023-09-15T14:43:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T14:43:14","slug":"bahraini-human-rights-defender-denied-travel-to-kingdom-to-visit-jailed-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/15\/bahraini-human-rights-defender-denied-travel-to-kingdom-to-visit-jailed-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahraini human rights defender denied travel to kingdom to visit jailed father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maryam al-Khawaja fears her father, the political prisoner Abdulhadi al-Khawajar, will die soon after being denied medical treatment<\/p>\n<p>A leading Bahraini human rights defender and the heads of two global rights groups have been prevented from boarding a flight to Manama, where they intended to try to get access to her father, one of Bahrain\u2019s most prominent political prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were told they were not allowed to board us. Despite my being a Bahraini citizen, I was told I have to speak to Bahraini immigration \u2026 effectively we\u2019re being denied boarding by British Airways on behalf of the Bahraini government,\u201d said Maryam al-Khawaja, flanked by the head of Amnesty International, Agn\u00e8s Callamard, and the acting head of Front Line Defenders, Olive Moore, in the departure area of Heathrow airport.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2023\/sep\/15\/bahraini-human-rights-defender-stopped-from-travelling-to-kingdom-to-visit-imprisoned-father\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryam al-Khawaja fears her father, the political prisoner Abdulhadi al-Khawajar, will die soon after being denied medical treatmentA leading Bahraini human rights defender and the heads of two global rights groups have been prevented from boarding a f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4998,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[746,6,1258,1156,1314,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4998"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213988,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213710\/revisions\/1213988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}