Bahrain Issues Death Sentences Against Two People

Rasa - A court in Bahrain issued death sentences against two people and handed down heavy sentences to dozens of others over accusations of forming an illegal group, engaging in terrorist activities and killing a police officer.

News ID: 436200

Date: 01 February 2018 - 12:05

RNA - The court, which tried 60 people over accusations of forming an illegal group, handed down life prison terms to 19 individuals and issued long jail terms, from 15 to five years, for 27 others, presstv reported.

The court also revoked the nationalities of 47 defendants and confiscated all their assets.

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.

Manama has gone to great lengths to clamp down on any sign of dissent. in March 2011, troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were deployed to assist Bahrain in its crackdown.

Scores of people have lost their lives and hundreds of others sustained injuries or got arrested as a result of the Al-Khalifah regime’s crackdown.

In March 2017, Bahrain’s parliament approved the trial of civilians at military tribunals in a measure blasted by human rights campaigners as being tantamount to imposition of an undeclared martial law countrywide. King Hamad ratified the constitutional amendment in April last year.

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