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DUBAI, May 28 (Reuters) – Jailed Bahraini activist Abdulhadi
al-Khawaja ended a more than three-month-long hunger strike on
Monday evening, his wife said.
Khawaja, who is also a Danish citizen, received a life term
for charges including attempting to topple the Gulf Arab state’s
monarchy. He went on hunger strike on Feb. 9.
“He has stopped his hunger strike,” Khadija Almousawi,
Khawaja’s wife, told Reuters by telephone from Manama. His
lawyer had said earlier that Khawaja, a leading figure in
Shi’ite Muslim-led pro-democracy unrest that erupted last year,
felt he had succeeded in drawing attention to the issue of
imprisoned activists.
(Reporting by Rania El Gamal; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
