Khalifah ibn Sulman Al Khalifah
File - In this Friday, March 15, 2013 file photo, a Bahraini anti-government protester throws a piece of wood at an armored police vehicle during clashes in Jidhafs, Bahrain. A decade ago, against all odds, a popular uprising convulsed the monarchy of Bahrain as a wave of revolutionary protests swept across the Middle East. But after a brutal crackdown and years of escalating repression, activists say the small kingdom is less free now than even before the Arab Spring, as authorities crush hopes for political reform. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)
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FILE - In this July 19, 2020, file photo, people gather at a makeshift memorial near the home of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., in Atlanta. Lewis, who died Friday at age 80, was the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists who organized the 1963 March on Washington, and spoke shortly before the group's leader, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech to a vast sea of people. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
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FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2016, file photo, Bahrain's Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa greets Britain's Prince Charles in Manama, Bahrain. Prince Khalifa, one of the world’s longest-serving prime ministers who led his island nation’s government for decades and survived the 2011 Arab Spring protests that demanded his ouster over corruption allegations, died on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020. He was 84. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)
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