At the People Power Conference in Copenhagen last week, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, called on the Danish government to take all possible measures to secure the release of Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja from Bahraini jails. The UN expert described Al-Khawaja’s continued unjust imprisonment, following torture and an unfair trial, as an indictment on Bahrain and a stain on the Danish government. In a later post on…