Activist quizzed
By TARIQ KHONJI
Published: 15th March 2007
HUMAN rights activist Nabeel Rajab was yesterday questioned for an hour and later released by the Public Prosecution. He was summoned following a complaint brought against him by one of the people named in the controversial Bandargate report.
Mr Rajab said he was not informed of any formal charges filed against him and he was never told the name of the person who had made the complaint.
“However, the Public Prosecution did confirm to me that it was a person who was named in the report,” he said.
Coverage of the details of the report in the Press is banned following a high court gag order.
Activist quizzed
By TARIQ KHONJI
Published: 15th March 2007
HUMAN rights activist Nabeel Rajab was yesterday questioned for an hour and later released by the Public Prosecution. He was summoned following a complaint brought against him by one of the people named in the controversial Bandargate report.
Mr Rajab said he was not informed of any formal charges filed against him and he was never told the name of the person who had made the complaint.
“However, the Public Prosecution did confirm to me that it was a person who was named in the report,” he said.
Coverage of the details of the report in the Press is banned following a high court gag order.
The complaint against Mr Rajab was related to his distribution of documents related to the case through his activities with the dissolved Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR).
“I asked them why I was being summoned for distributing documents that are already widely circulated,” he said.
Mr Rajab was first summoned to the Criminal Investigations Directorate yesterday and then told to go to the Public Prosecutor after he insisted that his lawyer be with him during questioning.
He also asked the Public Prosecution why there have been no developments in a case that he filed two years ago against people who distributed e-mails threatening to harm him and his family for his human rights activities.
Mr Rajab was also accompanied by women’s rights activist Ghada Jamsheer and BCHR president Abdul Hadi Khawaja.
The BCHR has covered in detail issues related to the report and has had its website blocked as a result.
Mr Rajab had also taken part in a seminar on Reform in Bahrain: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, which was held in Washington DC on February 13 by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.
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