Bahrain - Jail terms upheld for Shiite opposition members, trials of photographers begin

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns a special court's decision on appeal on 27 September to uphold the prison sentences that were passed on 22 June on 14 members of the Shiite opposition including the blogger Abdeljalil Al-Singace, who was sentenced to life imprisonment. There were convicted of creating and running a terrorist group designed to change the constitution and the system of monarchy by force, being in contact with a foreign terrorist group that acts in the interests of a foreign (...)

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