Bahrain: Rajab arrested again, opposition party disbanded   Leave a comment

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The leading Bahraini human rights activist Nabil Rajab is once again behind the Bahraini jails.

According to news agencies, Rajab was sentenced to three months in jail on Monday for tweets deemed offensive to the country's autocratic rulers.

Rajab, head of the Bahrain Center of Human Rights (BCHR), was rearrested on Monday afternoon.

He wrote on Twitter that Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa should step down, as well as saying the people of the pro-regime town Muharraq residents had only welcomed him during a visit because he had offered them subsidies.

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Posted July 10, 2012 by nonviolentconflict in Discussion

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