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    19 Feb 2012 Amnesty International: Teachers, and former leaders of the Bahrain Teachers Association, Jalila al-Salman and Mahdi ‘Issa Mahdi Abu Dheeb, were arrested in March and April 2011, in connection with the association’s calls for strikes amid the spring 2011 protests. They were sentenced to three and ten years in prison, respectively, following unfair trials before the National Safety Court in Bahrain – a military court established to hear charges arising from the protests. Both Jalila & Mahdi were held incommunicado and experienced ill-treatment and torture. Their next appeal is scheduled for February 19, 2012.  Tell Bahrain’s government: Don’t jail teachers for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly.

    19 Feb 2012

    Amnesty International: Teachers, and former leaders of the Bahrain Teachers Association, Jalila al-Salman and Mahdi ‘Issa Mahdi Abu Dheeb, were arrested in March and April 2011, in connection with the association’s calls for strikes amid the spring 2011 protests. They were sentenced to three and ten years in prison, respectively, following unfair trials before the National Safety Court in Bahrain – a military court established to hear charges arising from the protests. Both Jalila & Mahdi were held incommunicado and experienced ill-treatment and torture. Their next appeal is scheduled for February 19, 2012. 

    Tell Bahrain’s government: Don’t jail teachers for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly.

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Every day so many bad things happen in this world: people die of poverty, starvation, politics fails us and corruption damages.

But every day so many good things happen as well: breakthroughs in health, science and technology, governments committing to change and people having fabulous new ideas on how to see good occur.

What if we could take just one action a day, to fight the bad and/or help the good?

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