Zainab al-Khamees, a member of the Bahrain Human Rights Society, was stopped at Bahrain International Airport on Monday. The authorities did not provide any reason for the restrictive measure, Arabic-language Lualua television network reported.
This is the fourth time that Bahraini officials have not allowed Khamees to leave the country.
On September 6, the human rights advocate was interrogated at the General Prosecution in Manama.
She was denied the right to have her attorney present during the session and accused of attending an anti-regime protest. Khamees and her attorney were also denied a case number for legal reference.
On November 9, 2016, the deputy secretary general of the European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights, Fatima al-Halwaji, was barred from leaving Bahrain.
Officials informed her that she could not travel abroad based on an order issued by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Lualua reported.
The order read that Halwaji had been slapped with a travel ban on charges of “spreading false news through social media networks.”
Halwaji’s case happened only four days after Bahrain’s Unitary National Democratic Assemblage said in a statement that officials had prevented human rights activist Dr. Monzer al-Khor from leaving the country through the King Fahd Causeway, which connects Bahrain to Saudi Arabia.
On August 22 last year, Enas Oun, who is the head of the Monitoring and Documentation Department at the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), was also prevented from travelling to a human rights workshop in Tunisia.
