Bahrain must release teacher activist

Headline Title:  Bahrain must release teacher activist 01 July 2013 The Bahraini Cassation Court’s decision to uphold the convictions against two leaders of the Teachers Association is a charade and yet another example of the heavy price government critics pay in Bahrain for their views, Amnesty International said today.Mahdi ‘Issa Mahdi Abu Dheeb and Jalila al-Salman, the former president and vice-president of the Bahrain Teachers’ Association were sentenced to 10 and three years imprisonment respectively on September 2011 after they called a teachers strike. They were charged with…

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