Country: Bahrain
Repression of Freedom of Speach

Free Bahrain's Leading Human Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab In prison for speaking up for the freedom to speak! No one should be jailed for #FreeExpression. #Bahrain must free Nabeel Rajab at once! #FreeNabeel

Burgess COMMENTARY
Freedom is incredibly valuable. I am very clear about my own values, but it is good for me to listen and hear what other people think since it is entirely possible that they might have better ideas than my own ... and maybe I might want to change my views as a result. Places with limited freedom are missing all sorts of opportunities for life to be better!
Peter Burgess

Free Bahrain's Leading Human Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab

In prison for speaking up for the freedom to speak! No one should be jailed for #FreeExpression. #Bahrain must free Nabeel Rajab at once! #FreeNabeel

Free Bahrain's Leading Human Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab

imageHuman rights activist Nabeel Rajab is in prison in Bahrain for 2 years as punishment for speaking to the media about restrictions on press freedom in Bahrain. He's threatened with another 15 years in a separate case stemming solely from Tweets in which he criticized the war in Yemen and the use of torture in Bahraini prisons.