Bahraini Court Upholds Life Sentences for Six Citizens
According to al Laulau website, it upheld the verdicts issued by a lower court in May.
The six, all Shia Muslims, were convicted in May of inciting anti-regime protests back in November 2014 with the aim of dragging the police towards a bomb in Diraz, situated outside the capital, Manama.
Two Bahraini police officers were injured as the homemade bomb exploded.
Diraz is the hometown of Bahrain’s leading Shia cleric, Sheikh Issa Qassim, who was stripped of his nationality in 2016 on allegations of serving “foreign interests” and promoting “sectarianism and violence.”
The move sparked angry protests and sit-ins in Diraz. Bahraini regime forces launched a fierce crackdown on those gatherings, placed the Shia leader under house arrest and imposed a military siege on the village.
Since early 2011, the Persian Gulf kingdom has been the scene of a popular uprising against the ruling Al Khalifa regime.
The regime in Manama has responded to the anti-regime demonstrations with a heavy hand, jailing dozens of political dissidents and dissolving major opposition groups. Scores of people have also lost their lives in the Saudi-backed clampdown.
The UN and leading human rights groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have repeatedly urged Manama to end its repression of political dissent in the Shia-majority kingdom.
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