{"id":8195,"date":"2022-12-06T08:37:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T07:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/06\/no-safe-haven-the-bahraini-dissident-still-menaced-after-gaining-uk-asylum\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T08:37:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T07:37:48","slug":"no-safe-haven-the-bahraini-dissident-still-menaced-after-gaining-uk-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/06\/no-safe-haven-the-bahraini-dissident-still-menaced-after-gaining-uk-asylum\/","title":{"rendered":"No safe haven? The Bahraini dissident still menaced after gaining UK asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exiled protest organiser Yusuf al-Jamri is beginning legal action against Bahrain and NSO Group after finding Pegasus spyware on his phone<\/p>\n<p>Yusuf al-Jamri had every reason to believe he was safe when he arrived in Britain in October 2017 and applied for asylum protection.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old Bahraini activist had experienced sporadic periods of detention and torture beginning at the age of 16, when he was first held for five months without charge. In 2011, during the Arab spring, al-Jamri faced regular questioning and harassment by authorities because of his work as a protest organiser. But it wasn\u2019t until 2017 \u2013 after multiple episodes of detention; alleged torture by Bahrain\u2019s notorious intelligence agency, the National Security Apparatus; sexual assault; interrogations; and threats of rape \u2013 that he decided to flee Bahrain with his family.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/06\/no-safe-haven-the-bahraini-dissident-still-menaced-after-gaining-uk-asylum\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3f3499a2925cd0ce2ece971c0caa7cc91b2e72b8\/0_232_6720_4032\/master\/6720.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c2ddefd0fcb95fbbd15f5784f99e1e23\" title=\"No safe haven? The Bahraini dissident still menaced after gaining UK asylum\" \/>Exiled protest organiser Yusuf al-Jamri is beginning legal action against Bahrain and NSO Group after finding Pegasus spyware on his phone<br \/>\nYusuf al-Jamri had every reason to believe he was safe when he arrived in Britain in October 2017 and applied for asylum protection.<br \/>\nThe 41-year-old Bahraini activist had experienced sporadic periods of detention and torture beginning at the age of 16, when he was first held for five months without charge. In 2011, during the Arab spring, al-Jamri faced regular questioning and harassment by authorities because of his work as a protest organiser. But it wasn\u2019t until 2017 \u2013 after multiple episodes of detention; alleged torture by Bahrain\u2019s notorious intelligence agency, the National Security Apparatus; sexual assault; interrogations; and threats of rape \u2013 that he decided to flee Bahrain with his family. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exiled protest organiser Yusuf al-Jamri is beginning legal action against Bahrain and NSO Group after finding Pegasus spyware on his phone Yusuf al-Jamri had every reason to believe he was safe when he arrived in Britain in October 2017 and applied for asylum protection. The 41-year-old Bahraini activist had experienced sporadic periods of detention and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/06\/no-safe-haven-the-bahraini-dissident-still-menaced-after-gaining-uk-asylum\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No safe haven? The Bahraini dissident still menaced after gaining UK asylum<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8195"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}