Dubai: Bahraini Shia rights activist Yousif al-Muhafda, who was on trial for spreading false news, has been acquitted on Monday, his lawyer Mohammed al-Jishi tweeted.
The activist was last month released on bail of 100 dinars ($265/198 euros).
Muhafda, who is the acting deputy head of the local non-governmental organisation, the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, was arrested on December 17 in Manama for posting a picture on social website Twitter of an injured protester after he clicked photographs of clashes between police and demonstrators.
On December 20, the public prosecution reportedly claimed that publishing the picture resulted in “protests and acts of sabotage that disrupted security and order on the same day.”
Bahrain, home to the US Fifth Fleet, has seen two years of political upheaval linked to opposition demands for a real constitutional monarchy, with the unrest costing at least 80 lives, according to international rights groups.
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