Bahrain sentences activist to death, slaps life terms on 22

‘A court in Bahrain has handed down a death sentence to one activist and life imprisonments to 22 others in the latest instance of the regime’s intensifying crackdown on dissent and members of civil society.

Bahrain’s Higher Criminal Court convicted the 23 Shias on Thursday in connection with the death of a policeman last year.

The 23 people were found guilty of terrorism-related charges, including setting off the explosives that killed the policeman.’

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