The Danish-Bahraini activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who is more than two months into a hunger strike in Bahrain, has told his wife that as of Wednesday he will only drink water and will be refusing intravenous fluids, according to AFP.
“Abdulhadi called and said that from dawn on Wednesday he will refuse intravenous fluids and nly drink water,” Khadiya al-Moussawi says, adding her husband’s voice was weak when she spoke to him on the telephone.
Al-Khawaja received a visit from his daughter and lawyer on Sunday, after which his daughter said her father was very thin and weak, and only drank water and juice.
A doctor from the International Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims who visited al-Khawaja last week said that the activist was in danger of his life if he continued his hunger strike.
Al-Khawaja began his hunger strike in early February to protest against a life sentence on charges of calling for a system change in Bahrain.
The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton has called on Bahrain to find a solution to al-Khawaja’s situation.
“The EU urges in the strongest possible terms the Bahraini authorities to find a compassionate, pragmatic and humanitarian solution ... as a matter of the utmost urgency,” Ashton says.
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