Bahrain activist al-Khawaja to travel home, press for father’s release

RIYADH (Reuters) -A daughter of prominent Bahraini rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja is planning to return to the Gulf state along with a group of international activists on Friday to press for her father's release from prison, rights groups said. Khawaja, who is also a Danish citizen, is a former president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights and is now serving a life sentence for his role in Bahrain's pro-democracy protests in 2011. His daughter Maryam said she will travel to Bahrain because her father was denied access to urgent and critical medical treatment, part of the reason why he is on hunger strike.