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Place of Birth: Bahrain
About Abdulwahab Hussain
- Abdulwahab Hussain Ali Ahmed Esmael (Arabic: ????????? ???? ??? ???? ????????) is a Bahraini political activist, writer, religious figure and philosopher.
- He was one of the most prominent opposition leaders in the 1990s uprising when he was arrested twice for a total length of five years in which he was allegedly subjected to solitary confinement and torture.
- After his release in 2001, he supported government reform plans. In 2001, Hussain chaired the committee which founded Al Wefaq, Bahrain's main opposition party.
- He urged opposition leaders to boycott 2002 parliamentary election after the king issued Constitution of 2002, which he found going back on reform plans.
- In 2003, Hussain announced he would leave politics and stop issuing public statements and in 2005 he resigned from Al Wefaq.
- In 2009 he returned to politics becoming the co-founder and official spokesman of Al Wafa' Islamic Movement. During the Bahraini uprising (2011–present), Hussain played an important role, leading protests, calling for the downfall of regime and establishment of a democratic republic.
- One month after the beginning of protests, he was arrested, allegedly tortured and sentenced by a special military court to life imprisonment.
- Later, sentence was overturned, and it was announced that he would be retried by a civilian court.
- The retrial began on 22 May 2012, but was postponed until May 29.
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