Jailed Bahraini rights activist Nabeel Rajab, who was ordered freed on bail today, will remain in custody for questioning in a different case, the prosecution office said.
"He will remain in jail pending the case being handled by the public prosecution, until the investigation is concluded," prosecution chief Mohammed Salah said in a statement carried by state news agency BNA.
A Bahraini court had earlier ordered Rajab freed pending trial on charges of spreading false information, with the case to resume on January 23.
But Salah said Rajab was being questioned in another cybercrime case on a similar charge of "spreading false news about the situation in the kingdom."
Rajab's son Adam lamented the decision to keep his father behind bars.
"Sadly, my father will not be released," he wrote on Twitter. "Those oppressors already have another case ready for him. They dont want him out."
Rajab has been repeatedly detained for organising protests and publishing tweets deemed insulting to Bahrain's Sunni authorities.
He previously served two years in jail on charges of taking part in unauthorised protests in the Shiite-majority kingdom.
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