121 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether the Bahraini authorities should drop politically motivated criminal charges against Nabeel Rajab, a human rights activist, head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, and a member of the advisory committee of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East Division, who was arrested at the Bahrain International Airport on 5 May 2012, for four Twitter postings in which he criticised the Interior Ministry; and his further views on whether this is an attempt to silence one of the Bahraini Government’s most prominent critics. [25353/12]

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121 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether the Bahraini authorities should drop politically motivated criminal charges against Nabeel Rajab, a human rights activist, head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, and a member of the advisory committee of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East Division, who was arrested at the Bahrain International Airport on 5 May 2012, for four Twitter postings in which he criticised the Interior Ministry; and his further views on whether this is an attempt to silence one of the Bahraini Government’s most prominent critics. [25353/12]

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