Interview with Ahmed of Bahrain Youth Movement

These are the questions asked in the interview: 1) Please introduce yourself - if there are any restrictions placed on your ability to speak under your student or bridging visa please take care how you indentify yourself. 2) What is your background - what are you studying and why? Are you a member of any political organisation? If so, what are your aims? 3) Why have you come to study here in Australia - what sort of work do you hope to get when you return to Bahrain? 4) Could you describe what has been happening in Bahrain since February 2011? 6) How is it that so many people have lost their eyesight in your country? Please tell us about the demonstration you have organised tomorrow? 7) What can our listeners do to help? 8) Is there anything else you wish to say? i.e. Have you been involved in the struggle for freedom by the Palestinian people? Read Palestinian poem. 9) What happened to your Aunty and Grandmother? 10) How many have been affected by repression - how many martyrs?