Nabeel Rajab, who is serving a five-year jail sentence for spreading false information on social media about the Saudi-led military action in Yemen, posted false and malicious tweets harming civil peace and social harmony on Twitter, said the General Directorate of Anti-corruption and Economic and Electronic Crimes in response to a call by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on January 4 to release him.
“They (tweets) amount to legal violations, which do not fall within the right to freedom of expression guaranteed by Bahrain’s Constitution,” it said .