Bahraini activist gets 3 years in jail

Prominent Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab has been sentenced to three years in prison.

According to IRIB, his lawyer Mohammed al-Jishi said on Thursday the court “sentenced Nabeel Rajab to three years in jail over three cases of taking part in unauthorized protests.”
On July 9, the Fifth Minor Criminal Court in Manama also sentenced Rajab to three months imprisonment for allegedly “insulting” the people of the Muharraq Island on Twitter in June.
Human Rights Watch censured the July 9 court ruling and said, “If anyone is guilty of insult today, it is the Bahraini government, which has reminded citizens they’re not free to express political views.”