Home
Politics
Khawaja has been taking "limited nutrition supplements voluntarily, but when his blood sugar dropped significantly today, his doctors asked for and received his consent to insert a naso-gastric tube for nutrition."
"At no time was he drugged or restrained," the spokesperson said in a statement, reacting to allegations that Khawaja was being forcibly fed.
Khawaja has been on hunger strike since February 8 and is awaiting a final court ruling on Monday along with other jailed activists who were convicted in June last year of plotting to overthrow the Gulf kingdom's rulers.
Khawaja, arrested last April shortly after the Sunni regime crushed a month-long Shiite-led uprising, will continue his hunger strike -- the fourth since his arrest -- until he is "released or dead," sources close to him say.
Bahraini authorities have repeatedly said that Khawaja is in good health.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"At no time was he drugged or restrained," the spokesperson said in a statement, reacting to allegations that Khawaja was being forcibly fed.
Khawaja has been on hunger strike since February 8 and is awaiting a final court ruling on Monday along with other jailed activists who were convicted in June last year of plotting to overthrow the Gulf kingdom's rulers.
Khawaja, arrested last April shortly after the Sunni regime crushed a month-long Shiite-led uprising, will continue his hunger strike -- the fourth since his arrest -- until he is "released or dead," sources close to him say.
Bahraini authorities have repeatedly said that Khawaja is in good health.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
