Nabeel Ahmed Abdulrasool Rajab (Arabic: نبيل أحمد عبدالرسول رجب, born on 1 September 1964) is a Bahraini human rights activist and opposition leader. On 21 February 2018, Rajab was sentenced by the High Criminal Court of Bahrain to five years in prisons for tweets wherein he criticized Bahrain's government. The first charge was for "offending national institutions" in connection to his documentation of mistreatment and torture in Bahrain's Jaw Prison in March 2015. (See BCHR's report: He is president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR). On 9 June 2020, he was released from prison.
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1 January 1964 (age 61) Bahrain
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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