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Bahraini human rights defender Abdulhadi al-Khawaja is being denied treatment for suspected glaucoma and risks going blind, Amnesty International has warned in a statement on Friday. Prison authorities have denied medical care for Khawaja since early February after the rights activist stood in the prison yard and chanted slogans in solidarity with Palestinians during Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s visit to Bahrain. His daughter Maryam Al-Khawaja believes that his medical treatment is being withdrawn as a part of reprisal for the incident. “We’re very worried about my father who call…