Nabeel Rajab

نبيل رجب

Activist In opposition Independent Verified

Bahraini human-rights activist; president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and former president of the Gulf Center for Human Rights. Imprisoned repeatedly since 2012 on charges related to tweets and articles; released to alternative sentence in 2020.

Country: Bahrain
Party: Independent / unaligned
Role: Activist

Position

1 source document on file for Nabeel Rajab (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from it; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

English 2016-09-04

Nabeel Rajab (Bahraini human-rights defender; president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights) — from his op-ed "Letter From a Bahraini Jail," The New York Times, 4 Sep 2016 (confirmed via Salon/TIME; NYT original paywalled): Bahrain jails those "daring to desire democracy," "no one has been properly held to account" for systematic abuses, and a challenge to the US over an ally that "punishes its people for thinking."

This is a country that has subjected its people to imprisonment, torture and even death for daring to desire democracy. No one has been properly held to account for systematic abuses that have affected thousands. Is…

60 words original source ↗

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Nabeel Rajab [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/nabeel-rajab

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Nabeel Rajab." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/nabeel-rajab.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-nabeel-rajab,
  title     = {{Nabeel Rajab}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/nabeel-rajab},
  urldate   = {2026-08-06},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-08-06},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.