Tweeting is not a crime: the RETWEET FOR FREEDOM campaign for Nabeel Rajab

December 15, 2016

TWEETING IS NOT A CRIME – RETWEET FOR FREEDOM

Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia and many other countries have no respect for freedom of speech: they imprison activists who tweet their support for human rights. Nabeel Rajab, President of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) is being tried for tweeting in March 2015 ‘Save the Children, Women & civilian from the war in Yemen – war brings hatred, miseries & blood but not solutions’. For this tweet, and another one denouncing torture in the Jaw prison of Bahrain, he faces up to 15 years in jail.

Support – (his org is an MEA 2012 finalist). He should NOT be going on trial 

Nabeel risks being sentenced for tweeting, we must tweet back to fight censorship and to mobilise the public opinion: http://rt4freedom.fidh.org/en

Source: Tweeting is not a crime

For earlier posts on Nabeel Rajab see: https://humanrightsdefenders.blog/tag/nabeel-rajab/

This entry was posted on December 15, 2016 at 14:25 and is filed under FIDH, human rights, Human Rights Defenders.

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