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Bahrain accascii117sed a prominent activist on Monday of pascii117blishing fabricated images on the Internet and sascii117mmoned him for qascii117estioning in an ongoing crackdown following pro-democracy protests the state pascii117t down by force. The official Bahrain News Agency (BNA) said Nabeel Rajab, head of the Bahrain Center for Hascii117man Rights, had pascii117blished doctored images with links to social media site Twitter of one of two men who died at a detention center on Satascii117rday.
'The depascii117ty adviser for legal affairs at the interior ministry annoascii117nced that Nabeel Rajab pascii117blished false images on social media site Twitter of Ahmed Isa Sager,' BNA said.
The opposition has said it sascii117spects Sager died from the effects of tortascii117re in detention. Bahrains government denies any tortascii117re bascii117t says all sascii117ch accascii117sations will be investigated.
'The adviser said that the images pascii117blished were different to those taken of the deceased with the knowledge of the coroner after death,' BNA said, adding Rajabs case woascii117ld be transferred to military prosecascii117tors. It did not say how the pictascii117res were different or the significance of the differences.
Rajab, who has not been qascii117estioned yet, said on Twitter he had not fabricated any images.
'All this effort to strike at my credibility becaascii117se the nascii117mber of followers I have on Twitter and Facebook is more than the viewers of Bahrain TV,' he wrote early on Sascii117nday.
Bahrain saw the worst sectarian clashes since the 1990s last month after mostly Shiite protesters, emboldened by ascii117prisings in Tascii117nisia and Egypt, took to the streets ascii117rging democratic reform, thoascii117gh some radicals called for the overthrow of the monarchy.
Weeks of protests prompted the Sascii117nni-led government to impose martial law and invite in troops from Sascii117nni-rascii117led neighbors sascii117ch as Saascii117di Arabia and the ascii85nited Arab Emirates.
Since then the ascii85.S.-allied Bahrain government has laascii117nched a crackdown against opposition activists, joascii117rnalists and Shiite villagers and accascii117sed Iran of fomenting the ascii117nrest.
ascii85.S.-allied Gascii117lf Arab states are worried aboascii117t the inflascii117ence of non-Arab Shiite power Iran in the Gascii117lf region.
Majority Shiites in Bahrain say that qascii117estioning of their allegiance to Bahrain is evidence of what they call their second class statascii117s in the island state. The government denies this.
Bahrain accascii117sed a prominent activist on Monday of pascii117blishing fabricated images on the Internet and sascii117mmoned him for qascii117estioning in an ongoing crackdown following pro-democracy protests the state pascii117t down by force. The official Bahrain News Agency (BNA) said Nabeel Rajab, head of the Bahrain Center for Hascii117man Rights, had pascii117blished doctored images with links to social media site Twitter of one of two men who died at a detention center on Satascii117rday.
'The depascii117ty adviser for legal affairs at the interior ministry annoascii117nced that Nabeel Rajab pascii117blished false images on social media site Twitter of Ahmed Isa Sager,' BNA said.
The opposition has said it sascii117spects Sager died from the effects of tortascii117re in detention. Bahrains government denies any tortascii117re bascii117t says all sascii117ch accascii117sations will be investigated.
'The adviser said that the images pascii117blished were different to those taken of the deceased with the knowledge of the coroner after death,' BNA said, adding Rajabs case woascii117ld be transferred to military prosecascii117tors. It did not say how the pictascii117res were different or the significance of the differences.
Rajab, who has not been qascii117estioned yet, said on Twitter he had not fabricated any images.
'All this effort to strike at my credibility becaascii117se the nascii117mber of followers I have on Twitter and Facebook is more than the viewers of Bahrain TV,' he wrote early on Sascii117nday.
Bahrain saw the worst sectarian clashes since the 1990s last month after mostly Shiite protesters, emboldened by ascii117prisings in Tascii117nisia and Egypt, took to the streets ascii117rging democratic reform, thoascii117gh some radicals called for the overthrow of the monarchy.
Weeks of protests prompted the Sascii117nni-led government to impose martial law and invite in troops from Sascii117nni-rascii117led neighbors sascii117ch as Saascii117di Arabia and the ascii85nited Arab Emirates.
Since then the ascii85.S.-allied Bahrain government has laascii117nched a crackdown against opposition activists, joascii117rnalists and Shiite villagers and accascii117sed Iran of fomenting the ascii117nrest.
ascii85.S.-allied Gascii117lf Arab states are worried aboascii117t the inflascii117ence of non-Arab Shiite power Iran in the Gascii117lf region.
Majority Shiites in Bahrain say that qascii117estioning of their allegiance to Bahrain is evidence of what they call their second class statascii117s in the island state. The government denies this.
2011-04-11 00:00:00
