Bahrain gives 10-year jail terms to three for attending protests
Bahrain’s Supreme Court has sentenced three Bahraini citizens to a total of 30 years in prison on charges of committing arson and participating in anti-regime protests a year earlier.
The sentence was issued on Saturday, when each of the convicts was given a 10-year jail term, Bahrain’s al-Wasat newspaper reported.
The daily said the three had gathered with seven others near the village of Sanabis on the outskirts of the capital, Manama, on November 22 last year, setting tires ablaze in a protest.
On Tuesday, the same court sentenced six protesters to 10 years in prison each for allegedly possessing firebombs and setting tires on fire in the Saar residential area, which is located to the west of the capital. Three other demonstrators were also sentenced to a total of nine years in jail for purportedly placing incendiary materials at the entrance to the area.
Since mid-February 2011, thousands of anti-regime protesters have held numerous demonstrations on an almost daily basis in the streets of the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom, calling for the Al Khalifa family to relinquish power.
Scores of people have been killed and hundreds of others injured or arrested in the ongoing heavy-handed crackdown on peaceful rallies in the country.
Amnesty International and other rights groups have repeatedly censured the Manama regime over the “rampant” human rights abuses against opposition activists and anti-government protesters.
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