Ali outside the Bahraini Embassy.
“I am doing it to save my father’s life.” Ali Mushaima is on his seventh day of hunger strike. His father, Hassan Mushaima, is currently in Jau Prison, Bahrain. He is seven years into a life sentence for organising against the regime during the 2011 uprising.
While in prison, Hassan has been beaten, tortured and degraded. His situation is made even worse by his complicated medical conditions. He suffers from high blood pressure, diabetes, gout, and a urinary tract infection, as well as being a former lymphoma cancer patient. Despite his medical history, Human rights Watch says that he has had medical care withheld.
