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Local Newspaper: Tweeter “Bou Khamees” Sentenced to One Year in Prison Over Insulting Journalist
2015-11-21 - 12:24 am
Bahrain Mirror: The Bahraini state Al-Ayam newspaper said that a Bahrain court sentenced a tweeter known as "Bou Khamees" to one full year in prison after convicting him of insulting journalist Mohammad Al-Arab.
Bahraini courts have sentences activists including the President of Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Nabeel Rajab, and opposition leader, Sayed Jameel Kadhem, over tweets posted on their personal Twitter accounts.
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