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Saeed Shehabi (سعيد الشهابي)
[edit]Saeed Shehabi is a Bahraini thinker, political activist, commentator and journalist. He is a regular columnist in the daily Arabic Al-Quds newspaper [1] and gives regular interviews to the BBC Middle East Service and Aljazeera. He is also the Director of Abrar House [2], an islamic community center in Central London that promotes interfaith work. He is also the leader of the pro-democractic Bahrain Freedom Movement [3] that is a banned Bahraini opposition group. He was also a founding member of Al-Wefaq National Party[4]. He was previously the editor of Alalam magazine and now hosts a weekly telivision programme on Alalam TV[5]. He has been living in exile in London since 1979 and returned to Bahrain on two occassions in 2002. He has a PhD in engineering from City University. Saeed Shehabi is married and has seven children.
On August 2010, Bahrain TV [6] declared that Saeed Shehabi is accused of being the second leading member of a terrorist network[7][8]. He is currently being tried in absentia along with Hassan Mushaimi[9]. The Bahraini authorities claimed that a red notice was issued by interpol for his arrest, however this has not been verified[10]. In 1996 he was similarly sentenced to 15 years in prison in absentia.
In the summer of 2009, Saeed Shehabi's home was attacked by arsonists[11].
References
[edit]- ^ Arabic Al-Quds newspaper: http://www.alquds.co.uk/
- ^ Abrar House: http://www.abraronline.net
- ^ Bahrain Freedom Movement: http://www.vob.org
- ^ Al-Wefaq National Party: http://alwefaq.net/
- ^ Alalam TV: http://www.alalam.ir/
- ^ Bahrain TV: http://www.alayam.com/tv/home.htm
- ^ Bahrain News Agency: http://english.bna.bh/?ID=89455
- ^ 'Terrorist Network' revealed on BTV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiHWKZ8L71c
- ^ Hassan Mushaima: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_Mushaima]
- ^ Daily Telegraph:Interpol Red Notice Issue:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/bahrain/8081933/Bahrain-royal-family-facing-unprecedented-challenge-in-election.html
- ^ House of Bahraini opposition activist firebombed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkGcZLtNboU