Facing charges related to comments on the social media website Twitter, Nabeel Rajab may be sentenced to more than ten years in prison.
CATEGORY: Bahrain
European Parliament adopts resolution condemning Bahrain’s human rights abuses
Yesterday, the European Parliament adopted, with a large majority, a resolution condemning recent human rights abuses performed by Bahraini authorities
Bahrain: Nabeel Rajab hospitalised after 15 days in solitary confinement
Index on Censorship is deeply concerned by news that Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab has been hospitalised while in prison
Bahrain must immediately release and drop all charges against Nabeel Rajab
Index on Censorship remains deeply concerned about the treatment of human rights activist Nabeel Rajab, whose detention was extended by another eight days. He has been held since 13 June.
Bahrain: NGOs call for an end to reprisals against human rights defenders
In a new and concerning escalation of its crackdown against civil society, Bahraini authorities are targeting human rights defenders
Bahraini authorities once again target human rights activist Nabeel Rajab
Monday’s arrest of Nabeel Rajab marks the latest attempt to silence one of the Middle East’s most prominent human rights defenders.
Index condemns arrest of Nabeel Rajab
Bahraini authorities have arrested Nabeel Rajab, a prominent human rights activist.
Bahrain continues to use arbitrary detention as a weapon to silence critics
Bahraini authorities this week released opposition activist Zainab al-Khawaja, who had been imprisoned with her infant son since March but continues to use arbitrary arrest and imprisonment to silence its critics.
Bahrain: “Release Zainab Al-Khawaja with no further delay”
On 7 April 2016, Bahrain’s foreign minister told the US State Department activist Zainab Al-Khawaja would be freed
Bahrain: critics and dissidents still face twin threat of statelessness and deportation
When we read about displaced people in the press, we usually hear about Syrian refugees fleeing IS or the one person per second displaced by natural disaster