The High Criminal Court in Bahrain sentenced on Wednesday (February 21, 2018) five members of the same family, including three sisters, to three years in prison in case involving “covering up” for wanted persons. Activists said the first instance court had sentenced the sisters (Amal, Iman and Fatima Ali) as ...
High-profile Bahraini activist Nabeel Rajab was sentenced to a further five years in jail on Wednesday over tweets critical of the war in Yemen, a judicial source and human rights groups said. Rajab, a leading figure in 2011 protests against the brutal regime, was already serving a two-year sentence handed ...
