Bahrain: 4 Arrested Over Tweets

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A Bahraini anti-government protester holds up a poster calling for the freedom of jailed human rights activists Nabeel Rajab (who was released in 2020), left, and Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, right, in Manama, Bahrain, May 1, 2015. © 2015 AP Photo/Hasan Jamali (Beirut) – Bahraini authorities arrested four people over social media posts in early March 2023, Human Rights Watch said today. One of those arrested had called for reform of Bahrain’s parliamentary system ahead of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly in Manama. The IPU Assembly, an annual gathering of parliament…

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