Zainab Abdulhadi al-Khawaja is a Bahraini human rights activist, and a participant in the Bahraini uprising.
10 Facts About Zainab al-Khawaja
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Zainab al-Khawaja rose to prominence after posting tweets online about the protests under the name AngryArabiya as well as for protesting her father Abdulhadi Alkhawaja's detention during his hunger strike.
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Zainab al-Khawaja is married to Wafi Al-Majed, and they have a daughter named Jude and a son named Abdulhadi.
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Zainab al-Khawaja's father is Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, former president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, and former director of the Middle East-North Africa region for the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders' Front Line.
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Zainab al-Khawaja criticized the administration of US President Barack Obama for "standing behind the dictator".
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Zainab al-Khawaja later told Amnesty International that she was beaten while in custody.
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Zainab al-Khawaja was arrested again on 12 February 2012, as she tried with other female demonstrators to reach Manama's Pearl Roundabout.
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Zainab al-Khawaja stated she had not been mistreated while in detention, attributing it to the government's fear of "bad media" rather than respect of prisoners' rights.
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Zainab al-Khawaja was formally charged with disrupting the traffic and insulting an officer.
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Zainab al-Khawaja has been held in custody in a local police station with her baby before being transferred to Isa Town Women's Prison.