‘Slow murder’: Hundreds of prisoners stage Bahrain’s largest hunger strike

Street protests in support of prisoners hunger striking [Courtesy of Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD)/Al Jazeera]

Ebrahim Sharif still recalls seeing blood on the walls of the military prison he was jailed in, shortly after demonstrating in Bahrain’s Arab Spring protests of 2011.

The then-secretary general of the Gulf country’s largest leftist political party – the National Democratic Action Society (Wa’ad) – was rounded up alongside other protesting leaders at that time, who were tried and imprisoned by military courts.