currently serving a life sentence there and has been called a prisoner of conscience by amnesty international maria thanks for coming on up front. you called the february twenty levon uprising in bahrain an inconvenient revolution for the arab world and for the international community what did you mean by that well what i meant is that because of her hands geo political importance being you know between saudi arabia and iran and hosting the flame to now also a base for the united kingdom there are a lot of interests that are based where you know when we took to the streets in two thousand and eleven we knew that we weren't just up against the bahamian government but rather the sixty's you see countries plus their allies the united kingdom and the united states and i think to the most part we've been proven correct in that you know the united kingdom the united states continue to sell arms to the bahraini government and they continue to some extent to prop up the monarchy and behind a lot of the deck is stacked against you when you were on the show two years ago and twenty sixteen you said you would