AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Bahrain’s opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman is marking another birthday behind bars on Wednesday.
His wife and daughters shared birthday wishes through social media posts, which also reiterated the family’s condemnation of his ‘unfair’ imprisonment.
Sheikh Salman was sentenced to life in prison last November after being found guilty on espionage charges. The verdict was upheld by Manama’s top court in January of this year.
The United Nations Human Rights Office described the conviction as politically motivated and expressed “serious doubts concerning whether the court proceedings respected the right to a fair trial.”
The opposition leader was jailed in December 2014 and initially sentenced to four years in prison for “inciting disobedience and hatred”.
In the months that followed, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) declared his imprisonment to be arbitrary.
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source : LuaLua TV
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30 October 2019
1:37:59 PM
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Bahrain’s opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman is marking another birthday behind bars on Wednesday.