Maryam Al Khawaja is a prominent Bahraini human rights campaigner.
Her father was recently sentenced to life in prison for allegedly plotting to overthrow the Bahraini Government.
Maryam Al-Khawaja tells Hardtalk's Stephen Sackur that Bahrain's strategic importance to the US and UK means that sometimes human rights violations have not been properly addressed.
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