AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Manama’s top court upheld a five-year prison sentence against human rights defender Nabeel Rajab on Monday.
His lawyer, Mohamed Al Jishi, was quoted by Reuters as saying that the “Court of Cassation rejected the appeal and upheld the sentence of five years.”
Rajab received the sentence in February over mere tweets criticizing the Saudi-led war in Yemen and Manama’s notoriously brutal treatment of prisoners.
As a result he was charged with “spreading false news and rumors in time of war”, “insulting foreign countries” and “insulting publicly the interior ministry”.
Rajab’s imprisonment has been criticized by international rights groups, which have repeatedly called for his immediate release.
The Bahraini activist was arrested in the summer of 2016 and initially sentenced to two years in prison over television interviews.
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source : Lualua TV
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31 December 2018
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Manama’s top court upheld a five-year prison sentence against human rights defender Nabeel Rajab on Monday.