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Bahrain court gives life sentence to over dozen anti-regime activists
[PRESSTV] court in Bahrain has sentenced 13 anti-regime protesters to life imprisonment as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy campaigners in the Persian Gulf kingdom.On Tuesday, Bahrain's Fourth High Criminal Court found the defendants guilty over their membership in the al-Ashtar Brigades, which the Manama regime has designated as a terrorist organization, Arabic-language Lualua television network reported. The court also revoked the citizenship of eleven of the convicts, and ordered seven of them to pay a fine of 700,000 dinars ($1.857 million) altogether. Two other dissidents, among them an Asian national, were sentenced to 10 years in prison. Thousands of anti-regime protesters have held demonstrations in Bahrain on an almost daily basis ever since a popular uprising began in the country in mid-February 2011. They are demanding that the Al Khalifah regime relinquish power and allow a just system representing all Bahrainis to be established. Posted by: Fred 2018-10-31 |
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