· March, 2015

Stories about Bahrain from March, 2015

Bahraini Human Rights Defender Awaits Sentence

  14 March 2015

Nabeel Rajab is scheduled to be sentenced in a case brought against him by the Bahraini government on March 15, concerning comments about ISIS that he made on Twitter. Convicted of “denigrating an official body” in tweets likening Bahrain's security apparatus to an “incubator” for ISIS fighters, Rajab was initially sentenced to six...