Date: Feb 21, 2018 Source: The Daily Star Bahrain activist Rajab sentenced to 5 years for tweets Agence France Presse DUBAI: High-profile Bahraini activist Nabeel Rajab was sentenced to five years in jail Wednesday over tweets critical of the war in Yemen, two human rights groups said. Rajab, a leading figure in 2011 protests against the Gulf state's Sunni minority rulers, was already serving a two-year sentence handed down last July for "disseminating rumors and false information" in television interviews critical of the government.