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Isa al-Jowder

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Isa Al Jowder
عيسى الجودر
Deputy Secretary General of Haq Movement
In office
November 11, 2005 – September 24, 2011
PresidentHasan Mushaima
Succeeded byTBD
Personal details
Bornc. 1937
DiedSeptember 24, 2011 (aged 74)[1]
NationalityBahraini
Political partyHaq movement

Sheikh Isa Abdullah Al Jowder (Arabic: الشيخ عيسى عبدالله الجودر) was a Sunni cleric and nationalist political activist in Bahrain. He was a member of the Haq Movement. He was a signatory to both the 1992 and the 1994 petitions calling on the then Amir to reinstate the authority of the 1973 elected parliament (dissolved by Amiri decree in 1975). He was briefly arrested by the government during the 1990s Uprising. He had previously been arrested for his political activities in 1957, 1963 and 1968.[2]

He died on Saturday, September 24, 2011.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "وفاة نائب رئيس حركة حق السابق الشيخ عيسى الجودر (Archived). Jurnal al-Jazira.September 24, 2014. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
  2. ^ The Birth of the Popular Petition Committee Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine (Arabic: ولادة لجنـــــة العريضــــة الشعبيــة.. لقــاء الوطنــي بالدينـي), Ali Rabea, Al-Waqt newspaper, June 11, 2007
  3. ^ الوسط العدد 3305 بتاريخ 25-09-2011م
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