An appellate court in Bahrain has sentenced a Shia activist to death and passed life imprisonment against more than a dozen other Shia activists as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on pro-democracy protesters in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
An appellate court in Bahrain has sentenced a Shia activist to death and passed life imprisonment against more than a dozen other Shia activists as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on pro-democracy protesters in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
The Supreme Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld the death penalty for a Bahraini national and sentenced 13 other activists to life in prison, the Arabic-language Bahrain Mirror news website reported.
It added that the court had also given 15 years of imprisonment to eight other dissidents, five years to another two and three years to two others.
Furthermore, the court stripped 25 other activists of their Bahraini citizenship.
Manama has accused all the defendants of launching an alleged bomb attack in the area of Abu Saiba, which resulted in the death of a security officer and the injury of a number of others, the report further said, describing the whole case as politically-motivated.
