Member State of the Arab League The Bahrain Freedom Movement (Arabic: حركة أحرار البحرين الإسلامية, romanized: Harakat Ahrar al-Bahrayn)[1] is a London-based Bahraini opposition group which has its headquarters in a north London mosque.
Its main medium is the Voice of Bahrain website which was blocked for several years by Batelco, Bahrain's sole Internet service provider, on orders from the Ministry of Information.
It is led by Said Al Shehabi, who was formerly a member of Bahrain's main Shi'a Islamist party, Al Wefaq Islamic National Society but resigned along with several other members in September 2005 after it ended its boycott of parliamentary elections.
The Bahrain government's political reforms in 2001 saw two of the BFM's most prominent leaders leave the movement.
On March 7, 2011, Al Shehabi alongside Hasan Mushaima, the leader of the Haq movement and Abdulwahab Hussain, the leader of the Wafa movement, formed the "Coalition for the Republic", calling for an overthrow of the Sunni government, because of the crackdown in February during the Bahraini uprising of 2011.