Egypt Denies Entry to Bahraini Activist's Daughter
Egyptian authorities have denied entry to the daughter of the jailed symbol of the Bahraini opposition movement, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, Cairo airport sources said on Monday.
Maryam al-Khawaja flew straight back to Copenhagen after arriving in Cairo on Sunday, having been denied entry "for security reasons," the sources said.
Khawaja is international spokesperson for the Bahrain Center for Human Rights co-founded by her father.
She is based in Denmark and, like her father, has joint Bahraini and Danish citizenship.
Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, 52, who was arrested a month after the crackdown on the protest movement, is serving a life sentence in Bahrain handed down for plotting against the state.
He ended a 110-day hunger strike in jail in May. Both the United Nations and international human rights watchdogs have called for his release.
Khawaja's other daughter Zainab was released in Bahrain in May, after serving a one-month jail sentence on charges of attacking a policewoman at a demonstration.
Source: Agence France Presse
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