Nabeel Rajab (2015)
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2015-015-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2015
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 26.0667
Longitude: 50.5577
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Bahrain
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- UN Treaty Bodies: CAT
- UN Special Procedures: Thematic
- Dates of prior UN action
- 14 October 2014; 13 May 2015
- Type of record
- Named individual
- Gender
- Male
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Individual's/organization's activity
President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights
- Type of rights defended
- Civil/political rights
- Religious freedom
- Unclear in SG Report
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
in connection with his arrest and detention on 1 October 2014, a day after returning to Bahrain from Europe where he had met with representatives of OHCHR (A/HRC/28/85, case BHR 13/2014;
rearrested and detained on 2 April 2015, this time in connection with the submission by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights of an alternative report submitted to the Committee for its fifty-fourth session.
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Treaty Bodies: CAT
- Dates of engagement
- Before 1 October 2015; Before 2 April 2015
- Type of attempted engagement
- Participation in meeting on UN premises
- Submission of information to UN
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- 1 October 2014; 2 April 2015; 11 May 2015
- Location of mentioned reprisals
- Isa Twon detention centre
- Reprisal information
his arrest and detention on 1 October 2014, a day after returning to Bahrain from Europe where he had met with representatives of OHCHR (A/HRC/28/85, case BHR 13/2014); Committee against Torture expressed its fear that Mr. Rajab might have been rearrested and detained on 2 April 2015;
fear that Mr. Rajab might have been rearrested and detained on 2 April 2015, this time in connection with the submission by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights of an alternative report submitted to the Committee for its fifty-fourth session. Following his arrest, Mr. Rajab was reportedly detained at the Isa Twon detention centre and his house raided by government security forces. The Ministry of the Interior reportedly subsequently announced that Mr. Rajab had been “captured” after publishing information that would harm civil peace and insulting a statutory body. As reported by the Committee in its letter on reprisals of 13 May 2015, on 11 May 2015, the High Court of Bahrain reportedly extended Mr. Rajab’s detention by 15 days
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Defamation / Defamation campaign
- Property damage/raid/search/confiscation
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- Government response dates
- 24 November 2014
- Government response content
stated that there had been no reprisals but that Mr. Rajab had been charged with publicly defaming the Ministry of the Interior and security forces in relation to statements that he had posted on his Twitter account, and that the court had ordered his release pending trial but banned him from travelling;
At the time of finalization of the present report, no response to the letter sent by the Committee had been received from the Government.
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0