Ghazi Farhan

A 31-year-old property executive, Mr Farhan manages three restaurants and a set of stables. On April 12th, plain-clothes police blindfolded him in his office car park, and took him for interrogation. This, he told his wife, was punctuated by whippings with a damp hose. Mr Farhan was accused of "participating in an illegal gathering of more than five persons", a charge carrying a three-year prison term. He was not a protester but he did occasionally stop by Pearl Roundabout to observe the protests. His wife, Ala'a Shehabi, an economics lecturer with ties to the opposition, fears she is to blame. She is a British national with a nine-month-old child, and rather than arrest her, they picked on her husband.

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Repression in Bahrain - Ghazi Farhan - Jun 10th 2011
14:23 by N.P - MANAMA - The Economist