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| Bahrain Strips Nationality of Dozens of Political Activists |
| 2017-04-26 |
| [ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Bahraini courts have revoked the citizenship of dozens of people as part of the ruling Al Khalifah regime’s oppressive measures and heavy-handed crackdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy campaigners in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom. On Tuesday, the courts sentenced three defendants to life imprisonment, while the rest were slapped with between three and ten years in jail. They activists were all found guilty of "forming a terror cell and illegally possessing explosives," Arabic-language Lualua television network reported. The development came only two days after Bahrain’s Supreme Court of Appeal sentenced three defendants to 15 years and three others to 10 years behind bars. The seventh defendant was slapped with three years in jail. They were all charged with "forming a terror cell and possessing explosives in the western village of Dar Kulaib." Thousands of anti-regime protesters have held numerous demonstrations in Bahrain on an almost daily basis ever since a popular uprising began in the country on February 14, 2011. |
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