Shop
Your Account Sign In
Support Us
Subscribe
Britain World Editorial Features Culture Sport
Britain World Editorial Features Culture Sport
Climate Crisis Donald Trump Workers' Rights Middle East Venezuela Ukraine Morning Star Video
Latest editorial
Oxfam has shone a spotlight on the threat the rich pose to democracy
Advertise Contact us Shop Subscribe Support us Daily Alert
Climate Crisis Donald Trump Workers' Rights Middle East Venezuela Ukraine Morning Star Video
Advertise with the Morning Star
Britain / 9 April 2019
British-Bahraini family protest at Embassy over relative’s imprisonment
Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei and his family protest outside the Bahraini embassy in London today [@SAlwadaei]
Phil Miller
Recent
Crowborough Training Camp in East Sussex, one of two barracks which will be used to house asylum seekers temporarily, October 28, 2025
Human Rights / 19 January 2026
Home Office accused of failing to protect survivors of torture and trafficking
19 January 2026
Penal Reform / 19 January 2026
High Court dismisses legal challenge to the use of pepper spray in YOIs
19 January 2026
Mental Health / 19 January 2026
More than 60 Labour MPs back under-16 social media ban
19 January 2026
Wales / 19 January 2026
Charity reveals the online toll on Welsh children's mental health
19 January 2026
Unions / 19 January 2026
TSSA and GMB exchange accusations of bullying and mistreatment
19 January 2026
Workers' Rights / 19 January 2026
Less than quarter of new teachers in Scotland find permanent post
19 January 2026
Donate to the Morning Star Fighting Fund
Donate to the 95th anniversary appeal

THE family of a political prisoner in Bahrain have rallied outside the Gulf country’s embassy in London to demand her release.

Hajer Mansoor Hassan spent her 51st birthday behind bars today amid growing concerns about her health.

 

Today makes three birthdays behind bars for Hajer Mansoor, on absurd fake charges, to punish her son-in-law for his human rights work. #FreeHajer #Bahrain @SAlwadaei pic.twitter.com/3nAzeghrYD

— Index on Censorship (@IndexCensorship) April 9, 2019
The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Become a subscriber
Similar stories
Attila the Stockbroker Diary / 21 March 2025
Attila the Stockbroker Diary: March 21, 2025
21 March 2025
Given the global plague of Agent Orange, the bard channels his energy into community self-help
Music / 24 February 2025
Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: February 24, 2025
24 February 2025
New releases from Richard Dawson, Yazz Ahmed, and The Murder Capital
VIRTUOSO PERFORMANCES: Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Au
Film of the week / 30 January 2025
Genius at work
30 January 2025
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE is dazzled by an extraordinary performance in a classic Mike Leigh film
Holocaust Memorial Day / 27 January 2025
Understanding Genocide
27 January 2025
JEAN BOASE-BEIER introduces some of the poetry that help us to understand genocides past and present