Tiotusentals aktivister i nya massiva demonstrationer i Bahrain

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Tiotusentals i nya massiva

demonstrationer i Bahrain

RT 2012-09-02
Tiotusentals demonstranter fyllde en av landets största vägar, i den första tillåtna demonstrationen på flera månader. Demonstranterna krävde bl.a. att regimen släpper den ikoniska människorättsaktivisten, Nabeel Rajab som nyligen fängslats.

http://rt.com/news/bahrain-march-protest-nabeel-rajab-148/

Kvinnorna på bilden kräver att regimen omgående släpper Nabeel Rajab! ...or else...
- De ser åtminstone inte ut att avsky bli fotograferade..? :)

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Thousands swamp Bahrain highway

in first legal 'Freedom and

Democracy' demo in weeks

RT 2012-09-02
Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters flooded a major highway in Bahrain for the first sanctioned opposition rally in months. They called on the government to release a prominent human rights activist and demanded greater freedom.

­The motorway, which links capital city Manama with Shiite villages, was swarming with demonstrators, the crowd extending for at least two miles (three kilometers). Protesters chanted pro-democracy slogans, waved Bahraini flags and called on the government to free Nabeel Rajab, a prominent human rights activist recently sentenced to three years in prison for supposedly organizing illegal protests.

“We do not forget the prisoners!” was one of the chants.

The mass rally was the first legal protest in over a month. In July, the government imposed a temporary ban on protests, with the interior ministry stating that the curfew was necessary to “restore order.”

- It was in that period that Nabeel Rajab was sentenced to three years in prison for participating in an “illegal assembly” and “calling for a march without prior notification.”

In June, Rajab had received a three-month prison sentence for a tweet that prosecutors say offended the residents of a Sunni-dominated neighborhood of the capital. In the tweet, Rajab alleged that the residents of the neighborhood only supported Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa because of financial incentives.

A judge later overturned the Twitter sentence, but Rajab must still serve his other, lengthier prison term for allegedly holding an illegal march.

Pro-democracy protests in the country have been ongoing since February 2011.

Colin Cavell, a former lecturer at the University of Bahrain, believes the nation's people are resolute in their demands for democracy.

“They’re tired of a single family running the entire country with kangaroo courts, with no justice at all and with disparity among the population,” he told RT.

- He also noted that while the US has traditionally propped up autocratic rulers and despotic monarchies to further its regional interests, a new strategy may soon be required.

“The United States wants to retain its hegemonic control not only over Bahrain, but over the entire Persian Gulf monarchs in the entire Middle East in order to keep that crude oil flowing,” he remarked.

“However, they realize with the increasing democratic opposition in all of these countries, that they can no longer lean on these autocratic rulers to retain their control.”

http://rt.com/news/bahrain-march-protest-nabeel-rajab-148/

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Nabeel Rajab

- Intervjuas av: - Julian Assange

Kort efter intervjun med Assange arresterades Nabeel Rajab, när han återvände till Bahrain efter inspelningen. Han avtjänar nu ett treårigt fängelsestraff bl.a. för att anordnat demonstrationer i Bahrain utan tillstånd från Regimen i landet. Rajab satt redan i fängelse när intervjun med honom på videon sändes på RT och sedan släpptes på webben.

Nabeel Rajab & Alaa Abd El-Fattah (E4)

In the fourth episode of The World Tomorrow Julian Assange speaks with two leading Arab revolutionaries in the middle of conflict, Alaa Abd El-Fattah from Egypt and Nabeel Rajab from Bahrain. Alaa Abd El-Fattah is a long time Egyptian blogger, programmer and political activist.

His parents were human rights campaigners under Anwar Sadat; his sister Mona Seif became a Twitter star during the 2011 Egyptian revolution, and is a founder of the No Military Trials for Civilians group formed under the post-Mubarak military junta.

El-Fattah was imprisoned for 45 days in 2006 for protesting under the Mubarak regime, and released after “Free Alaa” solidarity protests in Egypt and around the world. In 2011, from abroad, El-Fattah helped route around Mubarak’s internet blockade.

Nabeel Rajab is a lifelong Bahraini activist and critic of the Al Khalifa regime. A member of a staunch pro-regime family, Rajab has agitated for reform in Bahrain since his return from university in 1988.

Along with the Bahraini-Danish human rights defender Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, he helped establish the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights in 2002. Rajab is reasonably new to the limelight — becoming a face for the Bahrain uprising of February 14 2011, after the sit-in at Pearl Roundabout.

Since then, he has been a public face for the revolution, waging a social media war on Twitter with PR companies working for the regime. After al-Khawaja was imprisoned, he led protests for his release. He has endured beatings, arrests and legal harrassment for engaging in pro-democracy demonstrations.

On Saturday 5th of May, he was arrested at Manama airport , and charged the next day with encouraging and engaging in “illegal protests.” Nabeel Rajab remains in detention at the time of broadcast.

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