- Zainab al-Khawaja faces charges of assaulting a police officer, state-run media says
- Khawaja was arrested after trying to make contact with her father at a military hospital
- Abdulhadi al-Khawaja is on the 60th day of a hunger strike
- He is protesting the life sentence he received for his role in anti-government unrest
(CNN) -- Bahrain said Sunday it will not hand over Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, a human rights activist on a two-month hunger strike, to Denmark as requested.
The Supreme Judiciary Council said Al-Khawaja did not meet the conditions stipulated in its criminal procedures law to hand over the accused to foreign countries, the Bahrain News Agency reported.
Al-Khawaja had lived once in Denmark and holds Danish citizenship.
He is protesting the life sentence he received for his role in anti-government demonstrations that continue to roil his country. Sunday marked the 60th day of his hunger strike and the first anniversary of his arrest.
Bahraini authorities also charged Al-Khawaja's daughter with assaulting a public employee after she tried to visit her father.
Zainab al-Khawaja was charged and released Saturday after her arrest Thursday outside a military hospital where her father was receiving care, the Bahrain News Agency said. She was arrested again Saturday. Her sister said she has been released but government spokesman Abdul-Aziz al Khalifa said he did not know whether she has been released.
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights -- a group Abdulhadi al-Khawaja founded -- said he had recently called his family, saying he was mistreated by guards and hospital staff.
According to the group, he'd threatened his guards that he would stop drinking water, in addition to continuing his hunger strike, unless his treatment improved.
After she saw a picture of her father looking thin and frail, Zainab al-Khawaja ran to the interior ministry complex Thursday and called out his name, she told CNN.
The Interior Ministry said the daughter was arrested for being in a restricted area where "standing is prohibited."
How Bahrain quashed 2011 uprising The ministry also said she "attacked an on-duty public employee" -- resulting in the charge.
Pleas for activist on hunger strike Al Khalifa said Saturday that Abdulhadi al-Khawaja was in stable condition and receiving "the utmost care that is available."
He added that three doctors, one of them Danish, has kept a round-the-clock eye on the father for three weeks.
Records showed that al-Khawaja had lost about 10 kilograms (22 pounds) and had a low hemoglobin level, though not critically low, the government said. He was also reportedly taking fluids, mineral supplements, glucose and juice on a daily basis.
Al-Khawaja was arrested in April 2011 for his role in anti-government protests that began a month earlier with demands for political reform and greater freedoms in the Sunni-ruled, Shiite-majority nation.
Opposition groups say more than 1,000 people -- mainly Shiites -- were detained for allegedly taking part.
In June, Bahrain found Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and seven other Shiite opposition activists guilty of plotting to overthrow the country's Sunni royal family.
In November, an independent inquiry commissioned by the king confirmed that security forces had tortured and used excessive force against civilians arrested during the crackdown and that thousands of workers were allegedly fired for participating in the protests.
Since then, demonstrators and police have continued to clash.
Abdulhadi al-Khawaja can appeal his life sentence during a hearing on April 23, the government said.
CNN's Samira Said contributed to this report.
