On Wednesday 21 February, the spokesperson for the European External Action Service (EEAS) reiterated the EU's call for the release of Bahraini human rights defender, Nabeel Rajab, "including on humanitarian grounds due to his deteriorating health condition".
On 21 February, Rajab was sentenced by Bahrain’s High Criminal Court to five additional years in prison for comments posted on social media in 2015. "This verdict follows the one which had already been handed down in January....