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#Nabeel_Rajab, #Bahrain's top rights activist, is free
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/nabeel-rajab-bahrains-top-rights-activist-free

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

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

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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 (...)

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