The Bahraini authorities arrested yesterday lawyer Ibrahim Al-Mannai, an activist in expressing his views on Twitter.

he Anti-Cyber Security Directorate of the General Directorate of Anti-Corruption and Economic and Electronic Security said that it summoned a woman, 52, for posting a sectarian tweet defaming a sect in Bahrain and inciting hatred incitement.

However, this Directorate now has nothing else to do but pursue opinion-makers and journalists on social media, read their tweets, summon them for interrogation, arrest them, refer them to the Public Prosecution or prosecute them in sham trials. In reality, it is an anti-opinion directorate combating those who express their views on the internet.