Under charge of defaming a Bahraini activist lawyer was summoned to court

The Bahraini lawyer and activist Fatemah al-Hawaj said she was summoned on Tuesday by the Attorney General following statements she had made with a Bahraini daily, considered as hostile to an Islamic court Judiciary member.

She told reporters that the court "accuses me of defaming judges of an Islamic court.. But I said I have expressed my views " noting that the court release her by a guarantee.

Lawyer Hawaj had made an interview with the Akhbar al-Khaleej ( Gulf news) daily in what was considered as an attack against judges of the Islamic court in Manama after she had supported openly a young Bahraini women who lost the case of having custody of her two children ( after divorce) at the court.

The Bahraini activist in the field of women's rights, Ghada Jamshir, announced by the end of May that she was summoned by the Attorney General following a complaint against her by 8 judges from the Islamic court in Manama on defamation chargse.

She said "They had accused me of distributing publications to make the society stands against them."