The United Nations on Friday called for the release of Nabeel Rajab, a prominent Bahraini activist sentenced to five years in jail for tweeting criticism of the Yemen war. “We call on the Government of Bahrain to immediately and unconditionally release prominent human rights defender Nabeel Rajab and to ensure ...
A prominent Bahraini activist on Monday lost his final appeal against a five-year jail term for writing tweets deemed “offensive” to the Bahraini regime. The Gulf regime’s supreme court, whose verdicts are final, upheld the jail term against Nabeel Rajab, his second imprisonment verdict this year, for criticizing the monarchy ...
