| | | 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. |
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