Bahrain Gives Life Sentences to Two Dissidents

Rasa - A court in Bahrain sentenced two anti-regime protesters to life imprisonment and handed down jail terms to four others 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.

News ID: 442086

Date: 14 December 2018 - 11:28

RNA - Bahraini judiciary officials on Thursday sentenced two defendants to life in prison after finding them guilty of “unlawful gathering and targeting a police patrol car with an explosive device in the village of Nuwaidrat”, Bahrain News reported.

Separately, four defendants were sentenced to three years in jail each over political activities against the governing Al Khalifah regime.

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 dynasty 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. 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.

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