Imprisonment is deemed one of the hardest experiences in a human's life; when the authorities decide for one reason or another to hold a person behind iron bars, depriving one of freedom or seeing one's loved ones.

Bahraini security authorities released (February 3, 2022) Khalil al-Halwachi, a prominent Islamic Action Society (Amal) figure, over 7 years following his arrest, within the framework of the Alternative Penal Co

Family of prisoner of conscience and leader in Amal Society, Khalil Al-Halwachi, said that the authorities have officially rejected to alternate his prison term verdict with another one within the alternative punishment law.

The cassation court upheld on Monday (May 6, 2019) a 10-year jail term against Amal society leader.

Deputy head of the European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights (EBOHR) Fatima Al-Halwachi said that detained activist Khalil Al-Halwachi (who is sentenced to 10 years in prison) suffers from clot symptoms.

Bahraini scholar and human rights activist Khalil Al-Halwachi allegedly jailed in connection with the Arab Spring protests is to appeal his 10-year prison term. Al-Halwachi claims he has been targeted for his peaceful political activism around the time of the Arab Spring uprisings and was tortured while he was held in custody in 2011.