AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Bahrain’s Cassation Court is due to convene for an appeal hearing later this month in the case against the country’s opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, who was slapped with a life sentence last November.
According to a Twitter post by the opposition leader’s wife, Alya Radhi, the hearing has been scheduled for January 28.
Sheikh Salman was convicted by Manama’s appeals court after it overturned his acquittal on “spying” for Qatar.
Sheikh Salman was jailed in December 2014 and initially sentenced to four years in prison for “inciting disobedience and hatred”.
But since Bahrain joined Saudi Arabia and the UAE in imposing a blockade on Qatar, rights groups have accused Manama of using the row to intensify its clampdown on regime critics.
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source : Lualua TV
Tuesday
15 January 2019
1:07:02 PM
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Bahrain’s Cassation Court is due to convene for an appeal hearing later this month in the case against the country’s opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, who was slapped with a life sentence last November.