Bahrain upholds prison sentence for Nabeel Rajab over ’IS defection’ tweet
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A Bahraini appeals court has upheld a six-month prison sentence for Bahrain’s human rights activist Nabeel Rajab over a tweet that alleged some of the Gulf Kingdom’s soldiers had defected to the Islamic State (Isis).
Un tribunal de Bahreïn condamne à 6 mois de prison le défenseur des droits humains Nabeel Rajab pour un tweet
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Nabeel Rajab. Photo de Conor McCabe sur Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 2.0) Un tribunal de Bahreïn a retenu une peine de 6 mois de prison à l’encontre du dÃ(c)fenseur des droits humains Nabeel Rajab pour avoir twittÃ(c) des [ commentaires sur le groupe Etat Islamique. Le PrÃ(c)sident du Centre pour les Droits Humains de Bahreïn est dÃ(c)jà en dÃ(c)tention provisoire pour d’autres tweets et risque une peine de prison plus lourde. Un ami, qui s’occupe du compte Twitter de Rajab qui compte 261K abonnÃ(c)s, a fait passer l’information, en retwittant le tweet pour lequel Rajab est condamnÃ(c) : BREAKING : Appeal (...) Source : Global (...)
Bahrain upholds 6-month sentence for activist over tweet | GulfNews.com
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DubaI: An appeals court in Bahrain upheld a six-month jail sentence against prominent dissident Nabeel Rajab on Thursday for a tweet deemed insulting to the kingdom’s security establishment, state news agency BNA said.
He was convicted for “publicly insulting two government bodies,” the attorney general’s office was quoting as saying, referring to the defence and interior ministries.
Rajab has been a leading figure in protests by the tiny island kingdom’s opposition since the 2011 Arab Spring.
He has accused the government of repression and torture. The tweet at the centre of his case accused authorities of not tackling the threat of hardline militant groups like Daesh.
Bahrain has been in turmoil for 18 months, with the opposition agitating for democratic reforms.
The kingdom denies discrimination and says it has rolled out reforms and monitoring for abuses by the security forces.
In an open letter to the New York Times last month, Rajab urged greater freedom of expression in Gulf countries.
Bahrain: Decision Postponed in Closely Watched Rights Case - ABC News
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A Bahraini appeals court has adjourned a case involving Twitter comments by prominent rights activist Nabeel Rajab for another month as prosecutors consider new charges against him over online comments.
Defense attorneys had expected an appeals decision Sunday, but lawyer Jalila al-Sayed says the court postponed the case until May 4 after prosecutors presented additional arguments. Rajab is appealing a six-month jail sentence issued in January for insulting government ministries on Twitter.
He was taken into custody Thursday as part of a separate investigation and could face new charges over recent online comments, including posting about Bahrain’s participation in Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen.
Bahrain has faced more than four years of unrest following widespread street protests led by the Shiite majority seeking greater political rights from the Sunni monarchy.
PressTV - Bahrain court adjourns top activist’s trial
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The Bahraini regime has decided to keep prominent rights activist, Nabeel Rajab, behind bars for a longer time by adjourning his trial.
On Wednesday, a court in the capital Manamah adjourned Rajab’s trial and set a new hearing for Sunday.
Many rights activists and organizations have called on the Al Khalifa regime to release the activist, who is also the director of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR).
In a tweet shared in early October, Rajab said the Bahrainis that join the ISIL Takfiri terrorists in Syria and Iraq are actually members of security agencies belonging to the Persian Gulf monarchy.
“Many #Bahrain men who joined #terrorism & #ISIS came from security institutions and those institutions were the first ideological incubator,” Rajab tweeted, using another abbreviation for the ISIL.
Bahreïn : Un défenseur des droits humains toujours détenu pour un tweet | Huffington Post
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Within two weeks of releasing leading human rights defender Maryam Al Khawaja from jail the Bahrain authorities detained another. On September 30 Nabeel Rajab was taken into custody for allegedly insulting the Bahrain regime on twitter.
Rajab has been exposing human rights violations by the U.S. ally for many years and spent from mid-2012 to mid-2014 in prison on trumped-up charges. He’s hit a nerve again, tweeting that Bahrain’s security forces act as an ideological incubator for ISIS. Bahrain’s military and police are drawn almost exclusively from the Sunni sect, with the majority Shia population virtually shut out of the services. Rajab’s September 28 tweet came days after news of a Sunni Bahraini security official leaving his job to join ISIS.
Nabeel Rajab: The problematic success of ’human rights’ in the Arab world - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
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... he has no plans to be silent. Like the artist-activists El Haqed in Morocco and Ramy Essam in Egypt, and so many other activists across the region, the worse the political situation gets, the more defiant the most courageous human rights actors become.
The question is: who can and will support them as they continue playing the role of David to their governments’ Goliath?
#Nabeel_Rajab, #Bahrain's top rights activist, is free
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Bahrain released one of the Arab world’s best-known activists on Saturday after he served a two-year jail sentence for his role in pro-democracy protests in the US-allied kingdom, his son said and his lawyer said. Nabeel Rajab, co-founder and president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), was found guilty in August 2012 of organizing and participating in “illegal” protests to push for reforms in dictatorship ruled by the same family since 1783. read more
Bahrain Court Rejects Jailed Activist’s Request for Release - NYTimes.com
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Lawyer Mohammed al-Jishi said leading rights activist Nabeel Rajab, sentenced last year to two years in prison for cases related to organizing and participating in protests, had a legal right to an early release after spending a year and half in prison.
“But the court rejected the request to release him without giving any reasons,” Jishi told Reuters by telephone from Manama after the ruling, which was attended by representatives of several foreign embassies.
An official of the government’s Information Affairs Authority confirmed the court had rejected his request.
Rajab shot to prominence in 2011 when he became a leading campaigner against a crackdown on protesters. With 217,000 followers on Twitter he is one of the most well-known online activists in the Arab world.
Court denies request to free #Bahrain's top activst
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A Bahraini court refused Monday to free prominent activist #Nabeel_Rajab saying he was not eligible for early release from jail where he is serving a two-year sentence, a judicial source said. Rajab was arrested in the wake of the Gulf #monarchy's crackdown on pro-democracy dissidents in 2011 and jailed for taking part in “unauthorized” protests. His sentence was later reduced on appeal to two years from an initial three and according lawyers and right groups he had been eligible for early release late last month. read more
Assange sends protest package to #Bahrain's top political prisoner
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A Bahraini protester prepares posters during a demonstration in solidarity with jailed freelance photographer Hussain Hubail in the village of Abu Saiba, west of Manama on October 25, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Mohammed al-Shaikh)
#wikileaks chief #Julian_Assange has sent an “experimental” protest package fitted with a GPS tracker and spy camera to record its journey to jailed Bahraini rights activist #Nabeel_Rajab. The package, sent from London on Monday, contains (...)
Confrontation entre le Bahrain Centre for Human Rights et le régime
Security forces in Bahrain have fired tear gas to prevent protesters from reaching the house of a jailed human rights activist who is the focus of an international campaign seeking his release.
Riot police clashed with hundreds of marchers trying to gather at the home of Nabeel Rajab, who has been sentenced to two years in prison on charges of backing “illegal” protests.
Authorities also set up roadblocks to keep cars from reaching the house
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Allégations et dénégations:
Zainab and her father, AbdulHadi al Khawaja,on hunger strike in Bahrain are also refusing fluids in protest at being denied visits from their family, the BCHR said on Monday.
But the Bahraini government said Zainab al-Khawaja was accepting fluids and denied that her father was on any form of hunger strike.
“Both Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and his daughter Zainab al-Khawaja were denied family visits for the second time this weekend, prompting them to start a dry hunger strike today, 24 March,” the centre said in the statement.
The Bahraini government said only Zainab was on hunger strike, which she began on March 18. “But she is taking all kinds of fluid,” Sameera Rajab, Bahrain’s information minister, told Reuters by telephone from Manama.
Reuters
voir la lettre de Zainab al Khawaja ’why I am on hunger strike’
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Oui, et s’ils mourraient, le gouvernement dira que c’est par indigestion pour le père et par potomanie pour la fille.