(A Bahraini police officer bars Nabeel Rajab, Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, from gaining access to the court house in the Bahraini capital Manama.)
The counter-revolution is being televised, with witch trials played out on Bahrani talkshows
Tahiyya Lulu
(Tahiyya Lulu is the pen-name of a Bahraini woman and independent commentator)
guardian.co.uk, Friday 22 April 2011
".....If the walls of these prisons could talk, they would tell tales of Bahrain's secular nationalist political history and speak of the coalition of legal minds fighting for constitutional rights and rule of law.
They might also tell us the high price of providing medical care to protesters, or being a student participating in a national youth movement, a teacher practising the values they teach, or a unionist in a country that doesn't value the land and sea it rests upon, let alone the salt of its earth.
They may not even talk of politics at all, but of community service or online social media and blogging. They might just tell you about being young, and daring to dream aloud under the false spell of freedom during a brief Bahraini spring. With these and many hundreds more brave Bahrainis behind bars, every day fewer are left to speak for freedom or justice in Bahrain.
In the shadow of diminishing international media attention, if Rajab's voice is silenced by the government, what will happen to us? And by "us", I mean all the people who are protected by his courageous words and unwavering determination to speak for the protection and promotion of people's rights, whatever the price he may pay."
Tahiyya Lulu
(Tahiyya Lulu is the pen-name of a Bahraini woman and independent commentator)
guardian.co.uk, Friday 22 April 2011
".....If the walls of these prisons could talk, they would tell tales of Bahrain's secular nationalist political history and speak of the coalition of legal minds fighting for constitutional rights and rule of law.
They might also tell us the high price of providing medical care to protesters, or being a student participating in a national youth movement, a teacher practising the values they teach, or a unionist in a country that doesn't value the land and sea it rests upon, let alone the salt of its earth.
They may not even talk of politics at all, but of community service or online social media and blogging. They might just tell you about being young, and daring to dream aloud under the false spell of freedom during a brief Bahraini spring. With these and many hundreds more brave Bahrainis behind bars, every day fewer are left to speak for freedom or justice in Bahrain.
In the shadow of diminishing international media attention, if Rajab's voice is silenced by the government, what will happen to us? And by "us", I mean all the people who are protected by his courageous words and unwavering determination to speak for the protection and promotion of people's rights, whatever the price he may pay."
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