Committee to Protect Journalists
CPJ promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal.
CPJ promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal.
How to Show Your Support
1. Join the #F1 Thunderclap action and support the campaign with Twitter, Facebook, or both.2. Tell all of your friends and followers to join the campaign.
3. On April 6, watch as everyone’s messages are simultaneously shared at the start of the F1 race.
4. Continue speaking out for press freedom in Bahrain using the #F1 hashtag.
A Bahraini photographer holds a sign in support of jailed photographers during a march in Abu Saiba, west of the capital of Manama, Bahrain, Friday, March 21, 2014.
Protesters called to free political prisoners and democracy in the Gulf island kingdom. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
(Photo Credit: MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH/AFP/Getty Images)
New York, March 26, 2014–Today’s conviction of freelance photographer Ahmed Humaidan is an attempt by Bahraini authorities to censor independent and dissident voices in the lead-up to the Formula One race in April, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Humaidan, who has been imprisoned since December 2012, was sentenced to 10 years in jail, according to news reports.
Humaidan was one of more than 30 other individuals tried on charges of participating in an attack against a police station on the island of Sitra in 2012, according to news reports. The reports saidthree defendants were acquitted, and the rest were sentenced to between three and 10 years in prison.
Award-winning photographer Ahmed Humaidan, who documented many iconic images of the Feb14 revolution in Bahrain 3 years ago, was sentenced to 10 years in prison today.
Read more here: http://www.bahrainrights.org/en/node/5605