Bahrain: Rajab Arrested again, Opposition Party Disbanded

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The leading Bahraini human rights activist Nabil Rajab is once again behind the Bahraini jails.

According to news agencies, Rajab was sentenced to three months in jail on Monday for tweets deemed offensive to the country's autocratic rulers.
Rajab, head of the Bahrain Center of Human Rights (BCHR), was rearrested on Monday afternoon.

He wrote on Twitter that Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa should step down, as well as saying the people of the pro-regime town Muharraq residents had only welcomed him during a visit because he had offered them subsidies.
He was later charged with questioning the patriotism of the residents of the town

Leading activist Zainab al-Khawaja was a witness to the arrest, telling al-Akhbar Lebanese daily that masked riot police had arrived at his house and forcibly arrested him in front of his children.
"-I was with him before and he had his things ready. When they came to the house he was telling them 'wait I will finish, I am going to the bathroom and then I will come'," she said.
"But they didn't want to wait and they came inside the house and arrested him in
front of his 10-year-old daughter."

Al-Khawaja later tweeted a photo appearing to show him being arrested.
Meanwhile, a Bahraini court has ordered the disbanding the Islamic Action Association opposition group, accusing the party of financial irregularities.

While Bahraini prosecutors claimed on Monday that the ruling was made over the group's failure to provide the justice ministry with reports on its annual budget and promoting violence, it is widely believed that the Islamic Action Association was disbanded over its support for anti-government demonstrations in the country.
Bahraini opposition parties, including al-Wefaq, have slammed the court's ruling, saying it violates the constitution and law.


Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org