Nabeel Rajab is scheduled to be sentenced in a case brought against him by the Bahraini government on March 15, concerning comments about ISIS [1] that he made on Twitter. Convicted [2] of “denigrating an official body” in tweets likening Bahrain's security apparatus to an “incubator” for ISIS fighters, Rajab was initially sentenced to six months in prison. His sentence is being re-issued following a judicial appeal made by his legal defense in early February.
Rajab, who heads the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights [3] (dissolved and declared an illegal entity by the government), was released from prison in May 2014 after two years’ imprisonment for “disrupting public order [4].” Rajab was arrested and jailed following his efforts to investigate human rights violations surrounding Bahrain's popular uprising [5] in 2011.