Bahrain Center for Human Rights says prominent jailed activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, on a hunger strike for more than two months, has stopped drinking water.

Khawaja stopped drinking water on Thursday.

According to his wife, Khawaja has turned weaker than before, Bahrain Center for Human Rights said.

The Bahraini activist has also asked to see his lawyer to write his will.

Khawaja, who holds dual Danish and Bahraini nationality, was given a life sentence in June 2011 over accusations of inciting protests against the Manama regime.

The latest report by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights comes as tens of thousands of Bahrainis held a demonstration near Manama on Friday to demand an end to the regime’s ongoing crackdown on peaceful protests. Police used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators.

Bahraini activists say eight people have been killed as a result of the violent conduct of the Manama regime forces since March 17, 2012.

Mohammed Radhi, the eighth victim of brutality exercised by Bahraini police, died in hospital a few days after Saudi-backed security forces ran him over outside Manama, the activists said on April 14. Seven other Bahrainis have also been killed due to inhalation of poisonous tear gas ever since.

Bahrainis hold King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa responsible for the death of protesters during the popular uprising that began in the Persian Gulf island in February 2011.