Bahraini activist to be tried for tweets: lawyer

Bahraini human rights lobbyist Nabeel Rajab will confront trial for tweets he supposedly made about the Gulf Arab kingdom's jail framework and its contribution in the war in Yemen, his legal advisor said on Sunday, and he could confront up to 13 years in jail.

Rajab was captured not long ago on unspecified charges in what shows up a raising crackdown by the Sunni-drove government that likewise incorporated a court closing down a primary resistance society and a choice to strip the profound pioneer of the island's Shi'ite Muslim dominant part of his citizenship.

The case seems to identify with tweets he is asserted by the powers to have made a year ago in which he recommended security powers had tormented prisoners in a fundamental jail and on a military crusade in Yemen by a Saudi-drove coalition which likewise incorporates Bahrain.

"He was advised of the alluding of his case with respect to Jaw jail and the Yemen war to the High Criminal Court for trial," Jalila Sayed, Rajab's legal advisor, said in an email to supporters.

"The primary hearing will be on 12 July 2016. Nabeel may confront up to 13 years of detainment if indicted all things considered," she included.

There was no quick remark from Bahraini powers with respect to the case. Authorities there prevent methodical misuse from securing human rights and have blamed the resistance for mixing partisan contempt in the kingdom and serving the interests of their adversary, Shi'ite Iran.

Human rights activists, Zainab al-Khawaja and Nabeel Rajab (L) talk during their meeting with activists after al-Khawaja's release from prison, Manama, Bahrain, June 3, 2016.

Rajab has over and over been captured subsequent to 2011 professional popular government dissents basically by Bahraini Shi'ites were quelled with help by Saudi Arabia.

The kingdom has the U.S's. Fifth Fleet and is considered by Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdoms as a key defense against Iranian impact in the Arab world.

The Bahraini government drew U.S. what's more, United Nations judgment not long ago when it reported the nation's top Shi'ite minister, Ayatollah Isa Qassim, would be stripped of his citizenship and when it shut down al-Wefaq Islamic culture. [L8N19623T]

It had blamed both for being connected to Iran and of instigating partisan pressures in the island kingdom, charges they deny.

A regulatory court started listening to a request by the equity service to break down al-Wefaq however put off the hearing until September to give the gathering time to react to the charges.

On Sunday, the gathering's legal advisor said that the court has educated him it was propelling the date for the hearing to June 28.

(Reporting By Noah Browning, altering by Sami Aboudi, Alexandra Hudson and Richard Balmforth)

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