{"id":11241,"date":"2017-11-09T04:26:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T04:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=11241"},"modified":"2017-11-09T04:26:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T04:26:44","slug":"bahraini-court-postpones-trial-of-rights-activist-rajab-until-nov-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/bahraini-court-postpones-trial-of-rights-activist-rajab-until-nov-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahraini court postpones trial of rights activist Rajab until Nov. 22"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Bahraini court has postponed until November 22 the trial of\u00a0prominent Bahraini human rights activist and pro-democracy campaigner Nabeel Rajab,\u00a0who has been kept behind bars over his criticism of the ruling Al Khalifah regime and the Wahhabi ideology.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0High Court of Appeal, presided\u00a0over by Judge\u00a0Badr al-Abdullah, took the decision against the 52-year-old president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights on Wednesday, Arabic-language and independent Manama Post online newspaper\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n

Rajab was handcuffed as the judge announced the ruling. The judge did not allow the defense attorney to submit\u00a0several recordings as evidence and barred\u00a0Rajab\u2019s brother from the courtroom.<\/p>\n

On December 22, 2016, Bahraini authorities accused Rajab of making comments that \u201charm the interests\u201d of the Manama regime and other Persian Gulf kingdoms through an article attributed to him and published by French daily\u00a0Le Monde<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The article slammed the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group\u00a0for their crimes against humanity. It also condemned Persian Gulf Arab countries\u00a0for their failure to stop the spread of the violent Wahhabi\u00a0ideology.<\/p>\n

Wahhabism, the radical ideology dominating Saudi Arabia and\u00a0freely preached by its clerics, fuels the ideological engine of terror organizations such as Daesh and Fateh al-Sham, al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch formerly known as al-Nusra Front. Takfiri terrorists use the ideology to declare people of other faiths \u201cinfidels,\u201d justifying the killing of their victims.<\/p>\n

Rajab, who\u00a0was detained on June 13, 2016 for tweets that criticized Manama\u2019s role in the deadly Saudi-led military campaign against Yemen, could face\u00a0up to 15 years in jail.<\/p>\n

Liz Throssell, the spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement that Rajab was arrested for \u201cexercising his right to freedom of expression.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thousands of anti-regime protesters have held demonstrations in Bahrain on an almost daily basis ever since a popular uprising began in the country in mid-February 2011.<\/p>\n

They are demanding that the Al Khalifah dynasty relinquish power and allow a just system representing all Bahrainis to be established.<\/p>\n

Manama has gone to great lengths to clamp down on any sign of dissent.\u00a0On March 14, 2011, troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were deployed to assist Bahrain\u00a0in its crackdown.<\/p>\n

Scores of people have lost their lives and hundreds of others sustained injuries or got arrested as a result of the Al Khalifah regime\u2019s crackdown.<\/p>\n

On March 5, Bahrain\u2019s\u00a0parliament\u00a0approved the trial of civilians at military tribunals in a measure blasted by human rights campaigners as being tantamount to imposition of an undeclared martial law countrywide.<\/p>\n

Bahraini monarch King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah ratified the constitutional amendment on April 3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Bahraini court has postponed until November 22 the trial of\u00a0prominent Bahraini human rights activist and pro-democracy campaigner Nabeel Rajab,\u00a0who has been kept behind bars over his criticism of the ruling Al Khalifah regime and the Wahhabi ideology. The\u00a0High Court of Appeal, presided\u00a0over by Judge\u00a0Badr al-Abdullah, took the decision against the 52-year-old president of the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11243,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241\/revisions\/11243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}