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| Images of Zainab al-Khawaja being dragged away by police attracted widespread coverage |
Bahrain
police have released Zainab al-Khawaja, a blogger and human rights activist,
after five days in custody.
Ms Khawaja,
the daughter of a jailed opposition leader, was arrested on Thursday during an
anti-government demonstration.
Images of
her arrest, in which she was dragged to a police vehicle after refusing to
leave a sit-in, had received widespread coverage.
She was
released on Tuesday night pending trial.
After her release she tweeted that the last few days had been "tough".
The
28-year-old is the mother of a young child. Her father, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja,
her husband and other male relatives have been imprisoned since April.
In February
and March an uprising of Bahrain's majority Shia population against the Sunni
rulers began, inspired by the Arab Spring. The government crackdown left at
least 24 people dead, though some accounts put the toll as high as 40.
An inquiry
by an international panel of human rights experts found police had used
excessive force. King Hamad has put together a committee to implement the
recommendations of the panel's report.
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