AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Bahrain’s Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society reiterated its condemnation of last year’s court ruling against the country’s opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman.
Sheikh Salman was sentenced to life in prison last November after being found guilty of ‘spying for Qatar’.
In a statement on Monday, Al-Wefaq said that the ruling underscores the “corrupt and politicized” nature of Bahrain’s judicial system.
The charges against Sheikh Salman stemmed from an open and well-documented mediation attempt during Bahrain’s 2011 pro-democracy protests that resulted in preliminary communications between the regime in Manama, the Bahraini opposition and Qatar.
According to Al-Wefaq, the issue was resurrected in 2017 when Manama “decided to manipulate the process … and turn it into an unfair trial.”
Noting that the verdict is linked to “the conflict between Qatar and Bahrain”, the opposition group added that last year’s ruling also “revealed the collapse of [Bahrain’s] justice system.”
Bahrain joined Saudi Arabia and the UAE in imposing a blockade on Qatar in June 2017. Since then, rights groups have accused Manama of using the row to intensify its clampdown on regime critics.
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source : LuaLua TV
Wednesday
6 November 2019
1:18:13 PM
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Bahrain’s Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society reiterated its condemnation of last year’s court ruling against the country’s opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman.