A prominent Bahraini human rights activist has gone on military trial, his family said on Thursday.
Abdulhadi al-Khawaja was arrested with two of his sons-in-law earlier this month as part of a government crackdown on protests the tiny Gulf island country.
Police have been arresting opposition activists at checkpoints set up across Manama, the capital, and in certain villages.
So far, hundreds of people, many of them opposition activists and politicians, have been arrested.
Khawaja was reportedly seized from his home by masked men after being beaten unconscious on April 9.
"The trial against [Khawaja] started today but we family members were not allowed to enter the court. I don't know what charges are brought against him," said Zainab al-Khawaja, the activist's daughter.
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