Prominent Bahraini human rights campaigner Nabeel Rajab has called upon US statesmen to address the dire situation of human rights in the kingdom as the ruling Al Khalifah regime continues with its crackdown against opposition figures and pro-democracy activists.
The 52-year-old president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, in a letter sent to the US Congress a day before his trial on October 30, stated that he “cannot remain silent … whatever the punishment” against him would be, Arabic-language Bahrain al-Youm news website reported.
Rajab wrote that he faces a prison sentence of 15 years over posting Twitter messages and exercising his right to freedom of expression, in addition to fresh charges of “spreading falsehood” after the US daily The New York Times published an op-ed by him about the Manama regime’s repression.
The Bahrain right campaigner expressed concern over “the rapid deterioration of the situation of human rights…