Bahrain activist to face trial over tweets

Leading rights activist Nabeel Rajab is to remain in custody and go on trial from October 19 on charges of posting tweets deemed insulting to authorities, the prosecution said yesterday.
A general prosecutor, Hussein al-Buali, said Rajab was charged with "publicly insulting government institutions," after the defence and interior ministries lodged complaints over his comments on Twitter.
Shiite Rajab, who heads the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, was released in May after serving two years in jail for participating in unauthorised protests.
In one tweet, Rajab charged that Bahrainis allegedly joining Islamist extremists in Syria were originally members of the Sunni-ruled kingdom's security forces.