A Bahraini court sentenced a Shiite citizen to death and jailed 22
others for life Thursday for forming a “terrorist group” that killed two
people, including a policeman. This is the second such ruling this week
in the tiny Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom, where members of the Shiite
majority population have led an uprising.
The court also revoked the citizenships of the 23 convicts and fined
two of them 200,000 dinars ($530,000/480,000 euros), terror crime
prosecution chief Ahmed al-Hammadi said in a statement. Judicial sources
said that all the defendants were Shiite and that 16 were tried in
absentia, without giving further details.
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