Bahraini Courts Give Prison Sentences to dozen Reform Activists
TEHRAN(Basirat): June 3, 2018 Courts in Bahrain have handed down prison sentences to at least 12 anti-regime protesters as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the kingdom.
Bahrain’s Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced three of the defendants to five
years in jail, while four others received three years in prison, Arabic-language
Bahrain Mirror news website reported.
The court found the anti-regime activists guilty of "assaulting police officers,
setting fire to a police patrol car and illegal gathering” in the small village
of Abu Quwah.
They were also ordered to pay a fine of 378 dinars ($1,000) for the damage of
the police patrol car owned by the Ministry of the Interior.
The same court also upheld a three-year prison sentence against a political
dissident on alleged charges of making a fake bomb threat in Tubli village.
Separately, Bahrain’s Supreme Criminal Court sentenced two defendants to three
years in prison after convicting them of insulting and attacking a policeman and
a lieutenant at Dry Dock detention center. Two others got a month in jail each.
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.
Source: Press TV
