Press TV - Amnesty International has blasted Bahrain for upholding a life sentence against prominent Shia cleric and opposition figure Sheikh Ali Salman, describing the verdict as another blow to the freedom of expression in the country.
The Court of Cassation in Bahrain on Monday confirmed life imprisonment sentences against the 53-year-old Sheikh ...
France 24 - Bahrain's supreme court, whose verdicts are final, on Monday upheld a life term for Shiite opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman for spying for Gulf rival Qatar, a judicial source said.
Salman, who headed the Shiite Al-Wefaq group, was convicted in November of "communicating with Qatari officials... to overthrow constitutional order", ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- A court in Bahrain has cleared two police officers accused of torturing six doctors arrested during anti-regime protests in 2011, a Bahraini lawyer said.
On Monday, lawyer Ali Al Juffairi said that the court acquitted the pair, including Sheikha Noura bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa, a female police officer and a member of Bahrain's royal ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- A court in Bahrain sentenced 12 anti-regime protesters, including three minors, to prison terms of up to five years as the Al Khalifa regime steps up its crackdown on dissent.
On Sunday, the court sentenced the nine adults to five years in jail each. The three minors were also given three-year prison terms each, press tv reported....
TEHRAN (FNA)- An Appeals Court in Bahrain upheld 15 year sentences that had been handed to 28 defendants in an "attempted murder" case.
Three other defendants in the same case had their sentences reduced to 7 years, Alwefaq.net reported Monday.
However, the defendants had told their lawyers that they had been mistreated and assaulted in a way ...
A Bahraini court has sentenced six anti-regime protesters to 10 years in prison on charges of attempted murders of police officers in the wake of pro-democracy rallies in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.
A judicial source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Tuesday that the six defendants were convicted of throwing Molotov cocktails at a line ...
A court in Bahrain has sentenced nine anti-regime Shia activists to life in prison, as the Al Khalifa regime steps up its crackdown on protesters.
A court in Bahrain has sentenced nine anti-regime activists to life in prison, as the Al Khalifa regime steps up its crackdown on protesters.
The court issued the sentences on Monday after convicting the ...