Abdulrahman al-Nuaimi
Abdulrahman al-Nuaimi (1943/1944 – September 1, 2011) was a
opposition leader. Al-Nuaimi, who spent more than thirty years in self-imposed exile from Bahrain, founded some of the country's most important political opposition groups.[1]
Biography
He was born in 1944 on
Al Nuaim family that has close ties to the traditional ruling circles.[2] In the 1960s, he became increasingly politically active and joined the Arab Nationalist Movement. In 1966, he graduated from the American University of Beirut with a degree in mechanical engineering.[2]
After a crackdown on the workers' movements at the power station where he was working in 1968, he left Bahrain to live in exile, spending 33 years in
2006 parliamentary election, but lost to a pro-candidate candidate by a small margin.[1]
Abdulrahman al-Nuaimi suffered from deteriorating health in the mid-2000s. He fell into a coma in April 2007.[1] He was succeeded as head of the National Democratic Action Society by Ibrahim Sharif.[1] Al-Nuaimi remained in a coma until his death on September 1, 2011, aged 67.[1]
References
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- ^ openDemocracy.net. Archived from the originalon 27 September 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
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