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Bahraini injustice: Nabeel Rajab conviction for tweeting upheld

 Bahrain’s Court of Cassation has upheld human rights activist Nabeel Rajab’s five-year conviction for critical tweets made from his account condemning Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen and the use of torture at Bahrain’s notorious Jau Prison.
2018-12-31

Open letter to Bahraini authorities: Drop all charges and release Nabeel Rajab

 NGOs are concerned that, with Nabeel Rajab's appeal hearing scheduled on 31 December, authorities may be planning to increase his sentence under cover of the world's celebrations of the new year.
2018-12-18

Bahraini government must immediately release Nabeel Rajab

 Rights groups call for immediate release of Nabeel Rajab after UN group calls his detention arbitrary and discriminatory
2018-08-29

This week at Index: UN declares Nabeel Rajab’s imprisonment unlawful

 From Bahrain to Equatorial Guinea to the UK, these are the issues that Index has been working on this week.
2018-08-17

UN declares Nabeel Rajab’s imprisonment unlawful, warns arbitrary detention in Bahrain may amount to “crimes against humanity”

 It finds that Rajab should never have been prosecuted and that Bahraini authorities employed “vague and overly broad” legal provisions to target him for his “political views and convictions”
2018-08-15

Bahraini court upholds Nabeel Rajab’s five-year prison sentence

 Bahrain’s High Criminal Court of Appeal has upheld a five-year conviction for human rights activist Nabeel Rajab for critical tweets made from his account
2018-06-05

Bahraini injustice: Nabeel Rajab sentenced for tweeting

 Index condemns the decision to sentence Bahraini human rights defender - and Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award winner - Nabeel Rajab to five years in prison.
2018-02-21

Bahrain: Nabeel Rajab’s tweet trial brought forward, then adjourned to 7 December

 The 19th hearing of the leading Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Rajab was unexpectedly held earlier than the court had originally ruled.
2017-12-06

Court rejects Nabeel Rajab’s appeal against prison sentence for speaking to journalists
2017-11-22

Groups call on US, UK and EU to support Nabeel Rajab

 Rights groups have written to 11 states and the EU calling for action ahead of the conclusion of Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Rajab’s appeal.
2017-11-21

Letter: Drop all charges against Nabeel Rajab

 Index on Censorship joins with a coalition of organisations to write to governments about the ongoing judicial harassment of 2012 Freedom of Expression Award-winner Nabeel Rajab.
2017-11-21

Bahrain: Nabeel Rajab’s trial for tweets adjourned to 31 December

 The trial of Bahrain’s most prominent human rights defender Nabeel Rajab was adjourned to 31 December for a technical report on his tweets.
2017-11-19