In spite of all the protests: still six month sentence for Nabeel Rajab in Bahrain

January 20, 2015

Nabeel Rajab, has been sentenced to six months in prison for posting comments online which were considered insulting to the Ministries of Interior and Defence.

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Further to my post of this morning [https://thoolen.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/video-statement-of-troublemaker-nabeel-rajab-who-is-on-trial-today/], Nabeel Rajab was  unjustly punished and got – simply for posting tweets deemed insulting to the authorities – six months prison. “His conviction is a blow to freedom of expression – it must be quashed. He should be released immediately and unconditionally” said Boumedouha, Deputy Director of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Programme.

Bahrain: Six month sentence for Nabeel Rajab blow to freedom of expression | Amnesty International.

This entry was posted on January 20, 2015 at 23:34 and is filed under AI, human rights, Human Rights Defenders.

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