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Bahraini court upholds 15-year jail terms against 7 dissidents
[Iran Press TV] A court in Bahrain has upheld 15-year jail terms handed down to seven citizens as the Manama regime presses ahead with its crackdown on human rights...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedomat the convenience of the state... activists and pro-democracy campaigners in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom. On Thursday, Bahrain’s Court of Appeal found the defendants guilty of killing a member of security forces and setting his patrol car ablaze with a Molotov cocktail during festivities in the village of Karzakan, located 20 kilometers southwest of the capital Manama, on December 17, 2015, Arabic-language and independent Manama Post online newspaper reported. The court also pressed charges of illegal gathering and rioting in addition to possession of flammable materials against the convicts, and ordered them to pay 10,200 dinars ($27,835) altogether over damage inflicted on regime forces during the protest. Posted by: Fred 2017-09-29 |
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