In Bahrain, human rights activist Nabeel Rajab has been sentenced to five years in prison for tweeting about the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led bombing campaign’s killing of civilians in Yemen, and alleged torture in Bahrain’s notorious Jaw prison. Amnesty International said, “This sentence demonstrates the authorities’ ruthless determination to crush all forms of dissent and leaves no room for doubt about the extreme lengths to which they are willing to go to in order to silence peaceful critics.” Rajab has been imprisoned multiple times in recent years for participating in pro-democracy protests and for criticizing the Bahraini government.