5 years in jail for tweets: Bahrain sentences top rights activist Nabeel Rajab

Prominent Bahraini rights activist Nabeel Rajab was sentenced to five years in prison on Wednesday, for critical comments he made on Twitter about the government, Reuters reports, citing his lawyer and activists. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/8znt RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RussiaToday Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram https://t.me/rtintl Follow us on VK https://vk.com/rt_international Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com Follow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/rt Follow us on Google+ http://plus.google.com/+RT Listen to us on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/rttv RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 1 billion YouTube views benchmark.