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Saeed al-Shehabi
Bahraini activist and journalist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Saeed al-Shehabi (Arabic:سعيد الشهابي, born 1954) is a London-based Bahraini political activist, journalist, commentator and member of the Bahrain Freedom Movement.[1]
Education
Shehabi did his primary and secondary education in Bahrain before moving to the United Kingdom in 1973 to study for advanced degrees.[2][3]
Shehabi earned his BSc and PhD (in Control Engineering) from the City University London.[2]
Career
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Shehabi was a pro-democracy activist in Bahrain and founder of al-Wefaq, a pro-democracy political organization in Bahrain which the government of Bahrain dissolved. The Bahrain government has repeatedly and publicly denounced Dr Shebabi, as a result of his political activism and demanded that he be expelled from the United Kingdom.[4][5] In the past, Bahrain opposition groups have been accused of links to the Iranian government, which has sought to annex the island nation based on historic and demographic claims for decades.[6][7]
According to the London-based Centre for the Study of Terrorism, of which he is a Trustee, Shahabi edited the London-based Pan-Arabic weekly Al Aalam from 1983 to 1999 and, in addition to being Chairman of the Gulf Cultural Club, serves as a trustee of two Muslim charities located in London, the Dar Al-Hekma Trust and the Abrar Islamic Foundation, and writes "regularly" for Al-Quds and The Muslim News.[2]
The BBC describes Shehabi as "leader of a Bahraini opposition group in London".[8]
Shehabi gained British citizenship in 2002.[9]
In 2012 the Kingdom of Bahrain stripped Shehabi of his Bahraini citizenship, accusing him and 30 other activists with being a "threat to the state's security"[10]
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Personal life
Al-Shehabi has one daughter, Ala'a Shehabi, who is a democracy rights activist in Bahrain. In 2015 She published a book with British scholar Marc Owen Jones on the Arab Spring protests in Bahrain.[11]
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