Alwaght-Nabeel Rajab, imprisoned Bahraini activist, called on the West to break silence and stop duplicity over Bahrain.
In a letter from prison sent to the Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) on Wednesday, Rajab censured Western governments for supporting Bahrain’s suppressive regime and their hypocrisy over what is happening in the country. Press TV reported.
Bahraini people are the victims of both autocratic regimes and democratic West, the letter read, adding that the Western countries provide the Al Khalifa regime with weapons to repress the people.
Rajab was sentenced to six months in prison in January for posting tweets deemed critical of the Al Khalifa regime.
Rajab’s family says he was arrested on April 2 for posting comments on Twitter denouncing torture in a regime detention center where activists are held.
In May 15, 2015, Amnesty International called on Bahrain to "immediately" release Rajab.
Bahrain has been witnessing almost daily protests against the Al Khalifa regime since early 2011, when an uprising began in the kingdom.
Riyadh has backed Bahrain’s ruling monarch by giving all-out support to Manama for its brutal crackdown on the protests.
The Manama regime, a huge supporter of Saudi Arabia’s autocratic rulers, has been fiercely intolerant of figures opposing the Al Khalifa family and its backers. The Bahraini Interior Ministry had warned the opposition bloc in the country that any anti-Saudi Arabia comments over the airstrikes on Yemen would be dealt with.
