Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has been accused of telling a 'pack of lies' for claiming that Danish-Bahrain hunger striker Abdulhadi Al Khawaja is in critical condition.
The Gulf Daily News writes that 'the Danish premier has no idea about Mr Al Khawaja's condition' and she is 'deliberately making misleading statements to justify her unacceptable intervention in Bahrain's internal affairs'. The paper also claims that an international medical commission's report on Mr Al Khawaja's health 'would provide her with a true picture of his health'.
An accompanying article also asks how a country that published the Mohammed cartoons believes it can tell a Muslim country how to do business and calls Denmark’s intervention 'bang out of order' - "But what do you expect from a country that previously granted political asylum to the man widely reported to be a member of the Iranian-backed Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain, which was allegedly behind a 1981 coup attempt and other acts of sabotage?"
The article states that opposition activists like Mr Al Khawaja are guilty of threatening not only the security of Bahrain's parliament, but of the very country itself, and Denmark's own constitution is quite clear when it comes to defending its own political institutions, namely the Danish parliament.
"Any person who attacks its security or freedom, or any person who issues or obeys any command aimed threat, shall be deemed guilty of high treason," it says, claiming that the violence witnessed in Bahrain, and instigated by Mr Al-Khawaja, 'would warrant such action'.
At the same time, the human rights activist has denied reports that he's being force-fed in hospital. After failing to hear from her father for two days his daughter had expressed fears that he was being force-fed and tortured, but his lawyer has informed the family that he's still only accepting water.