Bahrain Activist Sentenced To Three Months In Jail For Tweeting Insults
Charged with tweeting insulting comments about the Prime Minister, a Bahrain activist has been sentenced to three months behind bars.
As the BBC reports, Nabeel Rajab has been tried and sentenced to three months in jail for comments he made on Twitter.
Rajab was arrested three weeks ago for his comments and other charges, and was held until his hearing Monday.
The prosecution spent those three weeks investigating complaints that he “…talked on social networks about the people of Muharraq in a way that questioned their patriotism and insulted them.”
Specifically, he tweeted that the Prime Minister of Bahrain should step down, and that the people of Muharraq only supported him because he offered them subsidies.
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