Summary: Imprisoned activist Nabeel Rajab writes article for New York Times

18th May 2017: Nabeel Rajab, director of SRT grantee the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, has written an article for the New York Times criticising US policy towards Bahrain. Rajab has been detained for more than 10 months for Tweets he sent about the Bahraini government’s involvement in the Yemen war. If convicted he faces up to 18 years in prison.

The article is available here.


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