{"id":6069,"date":"2018-06-26T14:18:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T14:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/6069-bahrain-court-gives-life-sentences-to-three-dissidents-jails-nine-others\/"},"modified":"2018-06-26T14:18:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T14:18:58","slug":"bahrain-court-gives-life-sentences-to-three-dissidents-jails-nine-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/6069-bahrain-court-gives-life-sentences-to-three-dissidents-jails-nine-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain court gives life sentences to three dissidents, jails nine others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A court in Bahrain has sentenced three anti-regime protesters to life imprisonment and handed down jail terms to nine others as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy campaigners in the Gulf kingdom.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>A court in Bahrain has sentenced three anti-regime protesters to life imprisonment and handed down jail terms to nine others as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy campaigners in the Gulf kingdom.\u00a0\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>On Monday, Bahrain\u2019s Supreme Court of Appeal found the defendants guilty over \u201csetting off an explosion that would have endangered the life and property of people, and unlawful possession of explosive materials for terrorist purposes,\u201d Arabic-language Bahrain Mirror news website reported.\u00a0\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>The court upheld life sentences against three defendants over their alleged involvement in a bomb explosion and attempted murder of a police officer in the northwestern village of Diraz, situated some 12 kilometers west of the capital Manama, back in 2014.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>The three dissidents were handed another five-year prison sentence as well.\u00a0 It also sentenced six others to three years in jail instead of five, reduced the life sentence of a defendant to 15 years in prison.\u00a0\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>The Supreme Court of Appeal further ruled that the cases of two other defendents could not be considered, sentencing the first one to 15 years in jail while the latter received 3 years.\u00a0\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>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.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court in Bahrain has sentenced three anti-regime protesters to life imprisonment and handed down jail terms to nine others as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy campaigners in the Gulf kingdom.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A court in Bahrain has sentenced three anti-regime protesters to life &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17302,"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":[7],"tags":[610,54,730,752],"class_list":["post-6069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-al-khalifah","tag-bahrain","tag-gulf","tag-kingdom"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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