{"id":76745,"date":"2016-07-13T14:15:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T13:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=76745"},"modified":"2017-03-22T14:48:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T14:48:48","slug":"index-condemns-judicial-harassment-nabeel-rajab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=76745","title":{"rendered":"Index protests judicial harassment of Bahraini human rights defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_64865\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64865\" class=\"wp-image-64865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Nabeel.jpg\" alt=\"Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Rajab (Photo: The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy) \" width=\"700\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Nabeel.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Nabeel-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Nabeel-279x200.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-64865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Rajab (Photo: The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Index strongly protests the continued judicial harassment of Nabeel Rajab, a respected Bahraini human rights defender, and calls for his immediate and unconditional release.<\/p>\n<p>Rajab was arrested on 13 June 2016 and later charged with \u201cspreading false news and rumors about the internal situation in a bid to discredit Bahrain.\u201d This charge was in response to statements he gave during past television interviews in early 2015 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, 12 July 2016, Rajab&#8217;s trial was set to begin but the Court adjourned the hearing and postponed the case until 2 August 2016, ordering the continued detention of the human rights defender.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Bahraini authorities are drawing out deliberately the process in a way that extends the punishment of a man who has not been found &#8211; and is not &#8211; guilty of any crime other than that of desiring to speak freely, and for others to be able to do the same,&#8221; said Index&#8217;s chief executive Jodie Ginsberg.<\/p>\n<p>Index is extremely concerned about the treatment of Nabeel Rajab, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2016\/06\/bahrain-nabeel-rajab-hospitalised-15-days-solitary-confinement\/\" target=\"_blank\">health condition has deteriorated<\/a> while in prison.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Index calls on Bahrain&#8217;s authorities to release Rajab to attend the mourning of his uncle who passed away yesterday, Tuesday, 12 July 2016.<\/p>\n<p>A former Index Freedom of Expression Award-winner and a member of the judging panel at the 2016 Awards, Rajab has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2016\/06\/bahraini-authorities-target-human-rights-activist-nabeel-rajab\/\" target=\"_blank\">subjected to ongoing judicial harassment<\/a> to silence his human rights work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Index strongly protests the continued judicial harassment of Nabeel Rajab, a respected Bahraini human rights defender, and calls for his immediate and unconditional release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":64865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[716,8864,366,9059,6534],"tags":[7405,3368],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86457,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76745\/revisions\/86457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}