Blogger Abdeljalil Al-Singace arrested again

Abdeljalil Al-Singace, a blogger who like Ali Abdulemam and 21 other human rights activists and government opponents was detained from September 2010 to February 2011, was arrested again. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on 22 June. The head of the pro-democracy and civil liberties movement Al Haq, Singace was previously arrested in 2009 for allegedly trying to destabilize the government because he used his blog (http://alsingace.katib.org) to denounce the deplorable state of civil liberties and discrimination against Bahrain’s Shiite population.