Alwaght-The Bahraini regime has rejected a request for urgent surgery required by incarcerated prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab.
Adam Rajab, Nabeel Rajab's son, stated that the Bahraini authorities have declined allowing his father to undergo surgery despite his stay in the hospital, on the grounds that "he is being treated in the military hospital that he refuses to be admitted to because of the degrading treatment he is subjected to there."
Rajab said via his Twitter account on Wednesday (April 4th, 2018) that his father was taken to the hospital "as a result of continuous vertigo and nausea,"
"When he was transferred, he was tied up and taken in a minibus continuing small cells. Every time the bus stopped or drove, his head hit the bars, as he was handcuffed."
Last February, Bahrain court sentenced Rajab to five years in prison over tweets deemed critical of the Manama regime and the deadly Saudi-led war against Yemen.
Rajab was already serving a two-year sentence over a January 2015 news interview in which he said that the Bahraini regime was torturing political prisoners.
Since February 14, 2011, Bahraini people have been holding peaceful protest rallies on an almost daily basis, demanding that the Al Khalifah family relinquish power and let a just system representing all people be established.
They have also been complaining about widespread discrimination against the Shiite majority in the kingdom.
Manama has responded to the protests with lethal force, drawing international criticism.
Bahraini authorities have also detained human rights campaigners, broken up major opposition political parties and revoked the nationality of several activists.
