Showing posts with label nabeel rajab. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nabeel rajab. Show all posts

Tuesday, 8 May 2012

'The World Tomorrow' Ep 4. Rajab & El-Fattah: Arab Spring (video)

This week's episode of the controversial talk show discusses the Arab Spring. Assange interviews Nabeel Rajab, human rights leader from Bahrain and Alaa Abd El-Fattah, political activist from Egypt.
Julian Assange interviews both activists who are involved in the Arab Spring to find out the latest status of the movement.
Nabeel Rajab is the president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and is the foremost critic of the Al-Khalifa regime in the country, which continues its brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters. With over 140,000 followers on Twitter, he is one of the most well-known online activists in the Arab world.

The second person interviewed is Alaa Abd El-Fattah from Egypt.  El-Fattah is a long-time Egyptian blogger, programmer and political activist... read full article and view video.

Monday, 7 May 2012

Human rights activist Nabeel Rajab arrested in Bahrain

Nabeel Rajab, one the subjects interviewed in Assange's "The World Tomorrow" to be aired on Tuesday this week, has been arrested in Bahrain.
Recently interviewed by Julian Assange on the upcoming episode of "The World Tomorrow", Nabeel Rajab, a human rights activist has been arrested on his return to Beirut.
According to Sayed Yousif al-Muhafda, a member of the BCHR, "The police arrested him near the plane's door. They said they had an arrest warrant from the public prosecutions office ... he was allowed to call his family after the arrest but they could not see him."
Rajab is the president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and is the foremost critic of the Al-Khalifa regime in the country, which continues its brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters... read full article.