Abdul Rahman Al Bakir

Al Bakir was born in Manama, Bahrain, in 1917. His family were Jews lived in Baghdad who later converted to Islam.{{cite journal|author=Miriam Joyce|title=The Bahraini Three on St. Helena, 1956-1961|journal=The Middle East Journal|year=2000|volume=54|issue=4|pages=613–623 ==Activities and arrest==

Al Bakir was employed at the Bahrain Petroleum Company in 1936 and then worked in Dubai, Qatar and in some African countries. Al Bakir and others made an application to the Supreme Court of St Helena and to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to use the habeas corpus which was admitted. Each of them was paid £15,000 for compensation and £5,000 for expenses. ==Later years==

After his short stay in London Al Bakir settled in Beirut, Lebanon. There he published a book entitled min al-bahrain ila al-manfa~Sant Hilanah () in 1965.{{cite thesis|author=Khawla Mohammed Mattar|title=Silent citizens: State, citizenship and media in the Gulf|location=University of Durham|url=http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5768/ ==Personal life and death==

Al Bakir was married and had four children, two sons and two daughters. As of 2002 his wife and daughters were living in Qatar. One of his daughters married Jassim Buhejji, cofounder of the National Union Committee. Al Bakir died in Beirut on 8 July 1971. His body was brought to Bahrain, but the Bahraini authorities did not allow his family to bury him there. Instead, he was buried in a cemetery in Doha, Qatar. ==References==