Bahrain Court Overturns Activist's Twitter Sentence

A Bahrain court has overturned activist Nabeel Rajab’s three month conviction. And his crime? Tweeting.

In early July, Rajab was sentenced to three months behind bars for tweeting insults toward Bahrain’s Prime Minister. At the time, the prosecution had argued that he sent several insulting tweets insinuating that the Prime Minister was giving handouts to a particular region to curry favor. The defense argued that most of Rajab’s accusers were former police and military with close ties to the government.