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Urgent Action update: New sentence against human rights defender in Bahrain

Overview

Prisoner of conscience, Nabeel Rajab, was sentenced to two years in prison on 10 July by a Bahraini court, and was convicted of “publishing and disseminating rumours and false news relating to the internal situation in the country” in relation to TV interviews he gave.

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Bahrain

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