Bahraini court upholds activists’ 5-year jail terms

A Bahraini appeals court has upheld an earlier ruling that handed five-year imprisonment sentences to activists convicting them of calling for and taking part in anti-government protest rallies .

A Bahraini appeals court has upheld an earlier ruling that handed five-year imprisonment sentences to activists convicting them of calling for and taking part in anti-government protest rallies .

According to judicial sources in the nation’s capital of Manama, the defendants were convicted of calling for the downfall of the despotic Al Khalifa regime.

The court upheld a ruling sentencing a civilian to two years in prison, after convicting him of calling for and taking part in anti-government protest rallies.

The Saudi-backed Manama regime has detained hundreds of anti-government activists as part of its brutal crackdown on popular dissent.