Abduljalil al-Singace عبدالجليل السنكيس | |
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Born | |
Occupation | Human rights activist |
Criminal charge | plotting to topple the government |
Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment |
Criminal status | To be retried |
Abduljalil Abdulla al-Singace (Arabic: عبدالجليل عبدالله السنكيس, born January 15, 1962) is a Bahraini engineer, blogger, and human rights activist. He was arrested in 2009 and 2010 for his human rights activities and released later. In 2011, he was arrested, allegedly tortured and sexually abused, and sentenced to life imprisonment for pro-democracy activism during the Bahraini uprising.