Second part: a translation of the the original Arabic letter he sent to his family on April 3rd.
Third part: a link to Amnesty International to sign a letter for the immediate release of activist Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja and the 13 others with him.
Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja is on his 55th day of hunger strike and has stopped taking inclines from April 2nd and is on the verge of dying. The longest someone has ever been on hunger strike is 61 days. It is important to mention that Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja said to the government, when arrested: “Either I live free or I die”.
His daughter Zainab Al-Khawaja, known as Angryarabia in Twitter, has translated a letter his father sent the family on April 3rd. SHAFAQNA.com has obtained the letter from the daughter (See the pictures below) saying that:
My dear and beloved family, from behind prison bars, I send to you my love and yearning. From a free man, to a free family. These prison walls do not separate me from you, they bring us closer together. Our connection and determination is stronger than ever.
We take our strength, from beautiful memories. Remembering every trip, every meal we ate together, all the conversations. Remembering every smile, all the jokes and the laughter. The distance between us disappears, thru our love and faith.
It is true: I am in here, and you are out there. But, you are in here with me, and I am out there with you.
Our pain is made more bearable when we remember we chose this difficult path and took an oath to remain on it we must not only remain patient thru our suffering; we must never allow the pain to conquer our souls. Let our hearts be filled with joy, and an acceptance of the responsibility we have been given for in the end, this life is about finding a path of truth towards God"
Please visit the link below and scroll down to fill-in your first name, surname and email address, and click Submit.
http://action.amnesty.org.uk/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1194&ea.campaign.id=13860
AND/OR YOU CAN SEND A LETTER BY POST TO THE KING OF BAHRAIN.
Please write a letter as soon as you can. You can use a standard envelope (business size). The cost of postage to send a letter to Bahrain or Denmark from the U.S.A. or any other country is negligible and is around only $1 U.S., but you may help save a life! You can write your own personal letter or use the template below that you can copy-paste, modify according to your information, and print.
His Majesty Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Office of The King
The Amiri Court, Rifa’a Palace
PO Box 555
Manama
Bahrain
Your Majesty,
I, [B]YOUR NAME HERE[/B] from [B]YOUR CITY AND COUNTRY HERE[/B], call on the government of Bahrain to immediately and unconditionally release from prison well-known human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, the founder of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights and former president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, a member of IFEX. Al-Khawaja is a courageous defender of the people's rights in Bahrain and the Middle East and North Africa region who is at huge risk of dying in prison, having started a hunger strike on 8 February 2012, and now suffering deteriorated health as he enters his fourth week without nourishment. In an open letter, Al-Khawaja pledged to stay on hunger strike until "freedom or death."
According to his family and his lawyer, Al-Khawaja is on the verge of death. He is approaching nearly two months of hunger strike.
After being arrested in April 2011, Al-Khawaja was sentenced to life in prison in June 2011, as part of a group trial of 21 activists and human rights defenders charged with a range of offences related to their role in peaceful demonstrations in Bahrain in February and March. Human rights organisations and even the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) have said the trials did not comply with international standards of due process, nor even Bahrain's own criminal code, because the 21 men were tried under National Safety Courts. While the BICI recommended the transfer of all cases for review under civilian courts, this has not been done for the case of the 21 activists.
I believe that the evidence is clear that Al-Khawaja and the other activists were sentenced in violation of their rights to freedom of expression, assembly and association, contrary to international law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Therefore, we respectfully demand the immediate release of Al-Khawaja, and transfer to Denmark, where he is a dual citizen, to get the urgent medical treatment he needs as a result of his lengthy hunger strike, in addition to the torture he endured while in detention, as documented by the BICI and human rights organisations.
I am deeply concerned about the health of human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja and urge the Bahraini authorities not to reject this humanitarian call.
Respectfully yours,
YOUR NAME HERE and signature below
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