Bahraini court gives prison sentences to three more anti-regime activists, revokes their citizenship

A court in Bahrain has handed down prison sentences to three Shia protesters and stripped them of their citizenship as the ruling Al Khalifah regime does not shy away from its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the tiny Gulf kingdom.

 

A court in Bahrain has handed down prison sentences to three Shia protesters and stripped them of their citizenship as the ruling Al Khalifah regime does not shy away from its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the tiny Gulf kingdom.

The court sentenced the first two defendants to ten years in jail each, while the third received a seven-year prison sentence after the trio was found guilty of “joining a terrorist group and traveling to Iraq in 2017 to receive military training.”

The three convicts were later stripped of their Bahraini citizenship.

Meanwhile, a female dissident has launched an open-ended hunger strike at a detention center in Bahrain to protest her dire situation and mistreatment by prison authorities.