Bahrain: Rights Center Closed as Crackdown Expands (New York, September 30, 2004) — The Bahrain government should rescind an order that closed one of the country’s leading human rights organizations, Human Rights Watch said today. The closure of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights on Wednesday follows the arrest last week of its vice-president, `Abd al-Hadi al-Khawaja, after he publicly criticized the prime minister. Al-Khawaja was detained on Saturday, September 25, a day after he criticiz...