Dr.  Nada Dhaif is a Bahraini oral and dental surgeon, activist and founder of the Bahrain Rehabilitation & Anti‑Violence Organization. She is a mother of two daughters whose peaceful treatment of wounded protesters during the 2011 Bahraini pro‑democracy uprisings led to her arrest in a pre‑dawn raid on 21 March 2011, subsequent torture (including beatings, electrocution, sexual threats and solitary confinement for 22 days) and forced signing of a false confession before a military court sentenced her to 15 years imprisonment, all while denouncing her actions as medical and humanitarian. Following a 2012 appeal she was exonerated in June 2012, after which she established BRAVO (Gulf region’s first organisation dedicated to the rehabilitation of torture and violence survivors) and emerged as a leading spokesperson on Bahrain’s human rights abuses, speaking internationally at venues such as the Oslo Freedom Forum. Although released, she and her family continued to face harassment, including aggressive interrogation at the Criminal Investigation Directorate in December 2011 and renewed threats linked to her activism.