BCHR | Testimonies of international human rights defenders on the impr
 

14-12-12 07:21 PM

Many international human rights defenders were banned from entering Bahrain to deliver testimony in the court for the imprisoned human rights defender Nabeel Rajab during his trial of appeal. They have recorded their testimonies in videos and sent them to the court, you can watch them below:

Joe Stork
Deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa



Mary Lawlor
Executive Director of Frontline defenders



Brian Dooley
Director Human Rights Defenders Program, Human Rights First



Kristina Stockwood
Campaigns Coordinator and IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group Coordinator, International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) Clearing House



Amina Bo'ayyash
Vice President, the International Federations for Human Rights(FIDH)



Joshua Colangelo-Bryan
American Lawyer



Khalid Ibrahim
Deputy Director of Gulf Center for Human Rights



In addition, The court watched videos of collected clips of Nabeel's speeches during protests and gatherings, and listened to his calls for peaceful protests:



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