RECENTLY released Bahraini activist Najah Yusuf has demanded her government end the “systematic abuse against its own citizens” as the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) called for her to be compensated for the violation of her human rights.

Ms Yusuf had criticised government and objected to the Bahrain Grand Prix in a series of social media posts, which were deemed as “promoting and encouraging people to overthrow the political and social systems.”

She was then arrested in April 2017, which WGAD declared Yusuf’s summoning to the Muharraq Security Complex by the National Security Agency as arbitrary today and were keen to stress in their findings that “no trial of Ms Yusuf should have taken place.”