Sept 14, 2016
Human rights groups have written to 50 states urging them to call on the Bahraini authorities to release Nabeel Rajab, who is facing up to 15 years’ in jail for comments he made on Twitter.
Rajab has also been charged with “defaming the state” by publishing “false news... and malicious rumours that undermine the prestige of the kingdom” following the publication of an article by him on the op-ed page of the New York Times.
Twenty-two NGOs, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, want the 50 countries to “speak out on Bahrain’s continued misuse of the judicial system to harass and silence human rights defenders.”
All the states have been signatories to previous statements at the United Nations criticising Bahrain’s human rights violations. Among them are the UK, USA, the France and Switzerland.
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