Nabeel Rajab abducted from his home

Nabeel Rajab, the head of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, was abducted from his home by about 40 individuals who threatened him and beat him before finally releasing him several hours later. Rajab had been giving interviews to international news media about the government’s use of violence to disperse protests and indiscriminate killings by the armed forces (http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/en/node/3825).