I regret to write that Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, the president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, was arrested this morning at 6 a.m. Persian Gulf time. The police issued no charges and gave no explanation of his arrest. On February 13, Mr. Alkawaja was to speak at AEI about human rights and political reform in the small Persian Gulf emirate. In the past year, Tunisian dissident Neila Charchour Hachicha and Yemeni journalist Hafez Bukari were also harassed by their home governments after speaking about the path to liberal reform at AEI. Previously, the Bahraini government expelled the local representative of the National Democratic Institute. Bahrain is joining ignoble company and hopefully will reverse these wrongs.