Bahrain releases a blogger on bail
From our correspondent
9 February 2007
MANAMA — The Public Prosecutor yesterday released on bail a Bahraini national facing a libel case in connection with his article in a blog where he called the Minister of Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture ‘stupid’. Blogger Mahmood Al Yousif was earlier also interrogated by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) following a defamation case filed by Minister Mansour Hassan bin Rajab.
“I received a call and was asked to report to the CID anti-economic crime unit. The officer was cooperative and offered me tea and then questioned me on that particular article in which I had described the minister as stupid,” he said following the interrogation by the CID. “When they told me that a libel case had been filed against me by the minister, I told them that I was exercising my right to express my views and brought to their attention that the Kingdom’s Constitution has guaranteed this freedom of expression to all citizens.”
Bahrain releases a blogger on bail
From our correspondent
9 February 2007
MANAMA — The Public Prosecutor yesterday released on bail a Bahraini national facing a libel case in connection with his article in a blog where he called the Minister of Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture ‘stupid’. Blogger Mahmood Al Yousif was earlier also interrogated by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) following a defamation case filed by Minister Mansour Hassan bin Rajab.
“I received a call and was asked to report to the CID anti-economic crime unit. The officer was cooperative and offered me tea and then questioned me on that particular article in which I had described the minister as stupid,” he said following the interrogation by the CID. “When they told me that a libel case had been filed against me by the minister, I told them that I was exercising my right to express my views and brought to their attention that the Kingdom’s Constitution has guaranteed this freedom of expression to all citizens.”