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 "... He ranked number 2 in Bahrain behind Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa. 

 Although on this occasion Rajab was personally congratulated by the Minister his use of Twitter to publicise human rights abuses has brought him into conflict with the authorities.  In April 2011 he was threatened with prosecution for publishing an allegedly fabricated image on his Twitter account of the body of Ali Issa Saqer showing signs of torture in custody, although the threats were withdrawn after prison guards were charged with Saqer's death. The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) described the threat to charge Rajab (was he formally charged?), the first ever in the Arab world involving "tweeting" (publishing information on Twitter), as an illustration of the Bahraini government's implacable hostility towards freedom of expression and Internet freedom.[150] 

 In 2012 Rajab's Twitter-based campaigning led firstly to his detention for a week on the charge of "insulting a statutory body via Twitter," after he published tweets critical of the Ministry of Interior (leading to criticism of the authorities by international human rights organisations), then to a 3 month prison sentence for a Tweet criticizing the prime minister, and eventually in August 2012 he was given three further one year prison sentences for illegal political activities involving the use of social networking sites."