A Bahraini court again denied bail to a leading Bahraini human rights activist on Tuesday and delayed his trial on charges of spreading false news, a pro-opposition rights group reported.
The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy said Nabeel Rajab’s trial was postponed to June 12, extending his period of pre-trial detention – much of which was spent in solitary confinement – to roughly a year.
Authorities at Bahrain’s information affairs office could not immediately be reached for comment on the case.
Continue reading here.