AhlulBayt News Agency

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Monday

27 May 2019

2:45:44 PM
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Bahraini court upholds female detainee's 5 year prison sentence, citizenship revocation

Manama’s top court upheld a February sentence against Bahraini female detainee Zakiya Issa Al-Barboury, who was slapped with a five-year-prison term and stripped of her citizenship.

AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Manama’s top court upheld a February sentence against Bahraini female detainee Zakiya Issa Al-Barboury, who was slapped with a five-year-prison term and stripped of her citizenship.

Bahraini rights campaigner Ebtisam al-Saegh, who broke the news about Monday’s verdict on her Instagram account, described the conviction as ‘illegal’.

Al-Barboury was accused of terrorism-related offenses after being arbitrarily detained in May of last year.

Both Al-Barboury and her 19-year-old cousin Fatima Dawood Hassan were subjected to incommunicado detention for weeks following their arrest by Manama’s security forces.

Although both were initially charged with so-called ‘terrorism’, Fatima was eventually released.

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