Maryam al-Khawaja, whose father is a political prisoner on hunger strike in Bahrain, risks going to prison, yet insists on going to Manama to raise awareness about her father.
What are the Bahraini authorities hiding in order to prevent international bodies from being reassured about the safety of those detainees? Does it go beyond the fact that the prisoners of conscience in Qurain are civilians?
Being the country with the biggest number of political prisoners among Arab states, the BCHR rights group estimates there to be some 4,500 political activists held behind bars across the country.