Nabeel Rajab
Nabeel Ahmed Abdulrasool Rajab is a Bahraini human rights activist and opposition leader. He is president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights . He is also a prominent international human rights activist. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watchs Middle East Division, Deputy Secretary General for the International Federation for Human Rights , former chairman of CARAM Asia, member of the Advisory Board of the Bahrain Rehabilitation and AntiViolence Organization , and president of Gulf Center for Human Rights .
Nabeel Rajab was born onSeptember 1964 in Bahrain to a middleclass family. He is married and has two children. He finished his secondary school education in 1983 in Bahrain, specializing in science. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and History from the University of Pune in India in 1987. He earns his living as a building contractor by trade. In February 2012, Rajab announced his intention to close down his business due to what he called government harassment. Nabeel Rajab is a nephew of Mohamed Hasan Jawad, one of thepolitical figures locked up for taking part in the uprising in 2011 and is also a cousin of Hussain Jawad, a prominent human rights activist arrested in February 2015.
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