Bahraini attorney general charges 13 anti-regime activists with terrorism

Bahrain’s attorney general says officials have charged 13 Shia activists with terrorism offenses as the ruling Al Khalifah regime does not shy away from its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the tiny Gulf kingdom.

Bahrain’s attorney general says officials have charged 13 Shia activists with terrorism offenses as the ruling Al Khalifah regime does not shy away from its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the tiny Gulf kingdom.

“Charges of forming and funding a terrorist cell have been filed against six persons in custody and another seven charged in absentia,” attorney general Ahmad al-Hamadi said on Thursday.

Hamadi alleged the convicts had affiliation to the February 14 Youth Coalition — an opposition protest movement named after the date of the beginning of a popular uprising against the Manama 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.