The Campaign for Peace and Democracy (CPD) said as many as 732 Bahrainis have been stripped of their nationality over the past 6 years.<\/p>\n
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The Campaign for Peace and Democracy (CPD) said as many as 732 Bahrainis have been stripped of their nationality over the past 6 years.<\/p>\n
According to Al-Laulau website, the New York-based CPD said the first ruling that revoked a Bahraini\u2019s citizenship was issued by a court in the Gulf island country in November 2012.<\/p>\n
But the trend soon became a source of concern for human rights activists as more and more such verdicts were issued against religious figures, parliament members, lawyers and media persons, it said.<\/p>\n
In the most recent case, a court in Bahrain revoked the citizenship of 115 people and gave 53 of them life sentences on terrorism charges on May 15.<\/p>\n
In a statement, prosecutors said 138 people had been accused of \u201cbeing behind a number of explosions, possession of explosives and training in the use of weapons and explosives and the attempted murder of police officers\u201d.<\/p>\n
Fifty-three defendants were sentenced to life terms and 62 others to between three and 15 years in prison, while 23 were acquitted, they said.<\/p>\n
Bahrain has been cracking down on Shia opposition groups and rights activists since they started their peaceful protests in 2011, a crackdown that has been condemned internationally.<\/p>\n
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The Campaign for Peace and Democracy (CPD) said as many as 732 Bahrainis have been stripped of their nationality over the past 6 years. \u00a0 The Campaign for Peace and Democracy (CPD) said as many as 732 Bahrainis have been stripped of their nationality over the past 6 years. According to Al-Laulau website, the New …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[54,219,632],"class_list":["post-5914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-bahrain","tag-human-rights","tag-terrorist"],"yoast_head":"\n