Recently Arrested Human Rights Activist Nabeel Rajab Gave Exclusive Interview to Julian Assange; Watch "The World Tomorrow" on RT

Recently Arrested Human Rights Activist Nabeel Rajab Gave Exclusive Interview to Julian Assange; Watch "The World Tomorrow" on RT

MOSCOW, May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Two Arab Spring revolutionaries, Nabeel Rajab and Alaa Abd al-Fattah explain why the reform movements stalled in Bahrain and have destabilized in Egypt on the May 8th episode of "The World Tomorrow" on RT.

Nabeel Rajab is the leading human rights activist from Bahrain and the founder of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights; right prior to the air of his interview to Julian Assange he was arrested by the Bahraini government forces and will now stand trial for inciting the acts of protests. Alaa Abd al-Fattah is the Egyptian writer and political activist who was a prominent figure in the Egyptian revolution. The two guests discuss the impetus behind the uprisings in the Middle East, what has been achieved and the prospects for democracy and reform in these countries.

"I speak to two leading revolutionaries: one from Bahrain, where the revolution failed; one from Egypt, where the revolution is now in turmoil. What makes a revolution? And where is the Arab Spring going to go?" - commented Assange on the upcoming episode.

In the interview given prior to his arrest Rajab commented on the struggle of the protest movement in Bahrain on the show: "This is freedom. This is democracy that we are fighting for. It has a cost and we have to pay this cost, and the cost might be very expensive - as we have paid high cost in Bahrain. And, we are willing to pay that for the changes that we are fighting for."

The fourth episode of Julian Assange's program will air globally on Tuesday, May 8th at 15:30 Moscow time /11:30 GMT/7:30 EDT across all RT channels in English, Arabic and Spanish, and will be rebroadcast every two hours thereafter.

The progress of the Arab Spring movements across different countries is a topic that Julian Assange has explored continuously starting with the very first episode of "The World Tomorrow." Interview with the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah caused a global media firestorm and trended on Twitter throughout the day. The most recent episode featured an extended discussion with Moncef Marzouki, the interim President of Tunisia, on democratic reforms in the cradle of the Arab Spring.

"The World Tomorrow" is RT's weekly interview program created and hosted by the WikiLeaks founder. Promotional materials, an exclusive interview with Assange and the full-length video of the aired episodes are available at http://assange.rt.com.

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