Amy Goodman
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Freed From Prison, Bahraini Activist Nabeel Rajab Urges U.S. to Stop Backing Regime's Crackdown
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June 9, 2014
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11:43Now PlayingNabeel Rajab, head of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, joins us after nearly two years behind bars for his role in prodemocracy protests. With the critical backing of the U.S. and neighboring Gulf states, the Bahraini government has waged a crackdown on opposition protesters since an uprising broke out in February 2011. "We have been abandoned by the American government, we have been ignored completely," Rajab says. "They support a dictatorship here... no one change their policy except the American people." We are also joined by Human Rights Watch's Josh Colangelo, author of a new report that finds Bahrain's courts have played a key role in maintaining the country's highly repressive political order, routinely sentencing peaceful protesters to lengthy prison terms.
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