The Haq Movement for Liberty and Democracy ( ar, حركة حق حركة الحريات والديمقراطية) is an opposition political organization in

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founded in November 2005 with

Hasan Mushaima Hasan Mushaima ( ar, حسن مشيمع) is an opposition leader in Bahrain and the secretary-general of the Haq Movement, an important opposition party in Bahrain. Before forming Haq, he was a founding member of Al Wefaq and a leading figure in t ...

as its secretary general. Several of its leaders were previously in the leadership of the

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society, but it also contains others such as Ali Rabea, a secular nationalist and former member of parliament previously associated with the

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, and Shaikh Isa Al Jowder, a Sunni cleric.

Background

Haq opposed participation in the parliamentary elections because it considers the 2002

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to be illegal and unilaterally imposed by King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, replacing the 1973 Constitution. Haq called on the

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on 15 November 2006 to investigate allegations that a secret government grouping has been conspiring to fuel sectarian tensions and rig the results of upcoming parliamentary and municipal elections. In a letter addressed to UN Secretary-General

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and delivered to Sayed Aqa, the

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's (UNDP) Bahrain coordinator, Haq called for the forming of an international fact- finding committee to scrutinize the claims made in an August report by the Gulf Centre for Democratic Development (GCDD). The 240-page report, dubbed Bandar Gate after its co-author Salah Al Bandar — a Briton of Sudanese origin who was deported in September to Britain after its publication — alleged that a ring masterminded by a government minister was secretly planning to manipulate the demographic makeup of the country, through the selective granting of citizenship.

Prominent figures of Haq Movement

(Secretary General) * Abdul Wahhab Hussain * Abdul Jalil al-Singace * Shaikh Isa al-Jowder (Sunni cleric) * Ali Rabea * Sayed Hadi Jawad al-Aali * Abbas Abdul Aziz Nasser * Layla Khalil Dishti * Abduljalil Al-Singace, professor of engineering at the

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, director of the movement’s Human Rights Bureau, was trialed on 27 September 2011 and received a life sentence.Internet Enemies report 2012

References

External links

Haq Movement website
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Background

Prominent figures of Haq Movement

See also

References

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