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The third signatory, Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei - who is now a British citizen - said he had been beaten, tortured and jailed for calling for peaceful change.

“Throughout King Hamad’s rule, scores of Bahrainis have been arbitrarily detained and tortured, and some have even been killed as a result of exercising their rights to assembly and free expression,” Niku Jafarnia of Human Rights Watch told the BBC.

The online group paid for baby long-tailed macaque monkeys to be taken from their mothers and then tortured and killed.

He fled the country to Germany after spending a month in jail, where he said he had been tortured.

Even seasoned artists like Beyoncé and Taylor Swift made it a year worth celebrating in music with their spring album releases "Cowboy Carter" and "The Tortured Poets Department."