Bahrain gives 10-year jail terms to three for attending protests
Bahrain’s Supreme Court has sentenced three Bahraini citizens to a total of 30 years in prison on charges of committing arson and participating in anti-regime protests a year earlier.
The sentence was issued on Saturday, when each of the convicts was given a 10-year jail term, Bahrain’s al-Wasat newspaper reported.
The daily said the three had gathered with seven others near the village of Sanabis on the outskirts of the capital, Manama, on November 22 last year, setting tires ablaze in a protest.
On Tuesday, the same court sentenced six protesters to 10 years in prison each for allegedly possessing firebombs and setting tires on fire in the Saar residential area, which is located to the west of the capital. Three other demonstrators were also sentenced to a total of nine years in jail for purportedly placing incendiary materials at the entrance to the area.
Since mid-February 2011, thousands of anti-regime protesters have held numerous demonstrations on an almost daily basis in the streets of the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom, calling for the Al Khalifa family to relinquish power.
Scores of people have been killed and hundreds of others injured or arrested in the ongoing heavy-handed crackdown on peaceful rallies in the country.
Amnesty International and other rights groups have repeatedly censured the Manama regime over the “rampant” human rights abuses against opposition activists and anti-government protesters.
Qatar: Reports about withdrawal from Gaza mediation, Hamas exit from Doha ‘inaccurate’
FM strongly condemns meddlesome EU-GCC statement against Iran
US approves $2.25 billion in new arms sales to Saudi Arabia, UAE
Dutch police arrest pro-Palestine demonstrators in Amsterdam
Iran president confident Riyadh summit can help end Israeli crimes
VIDEO | Hezbollah statement
UN calls for ‘immediate action’ as famine unfolds in north Gaza
Iran’s economy much different than in Trump's first term: CBI chief
VIDEO | Press TV's News Headlines
Five volunteer security forces killed in terrorist attack in southeast Iran
VIDEO | Sydney stands for Palestine: 400 days on, world remains indifferent
PressTV NEWSLETTER
now
This makes it easy to access the Press TV website
