A Bahraini court sentenced 167 people arrested in 2017 at a sit-in outside the h...
DUBAI - A Bahraini court sentenced 167 people arrested in 2017 at a sit-in outside the home of Bahrain’s leading Shi’ite Muslim cleric to between six months and 10 years in prison at a trial in late February, court documents and lawyers said.
Court documents obtained by Reuters showed that at the sentencing on Feb. 27, the High Criminal Court handed 56 of the defendants 10-year prison terms. The majority received one-year terms. The court acquitted four people. Mass trials became commonplace in Bahrain following a failed uprising in 2011 that was led by members of the Shi’ite majority. Scores of people are imprisoned including leading opposition figures and human rights activists. Many others have fled abroad.
In a statement on Thursday, the Bahraini government denied having targeted Shi’ite activists, saying individual rights are protected and “ethnic backgrounds are never taken into account in any circumstance in Bahrain”.
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