Bahrain Mirror: The Bahrain Center for Human Rights confirmed that the East Riffa prison authorities have placed the prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab in solitary confinement, indicating that he was maltreated.

The center said that Rajab's family received a call from him informing them that he is held in solitary confinement, insulted, and lashed at by one of the officers in the East Riffa center.

"We were also informed that the clothes and napkins brought to Rajab by his family were befouled with water and dirt, while his family were prevented from bringing him a radio," the Bahrain Center for Human Rights added.

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