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| Bahrainis Jailed, Stripped of Nationality, for 'Terrorism' |
| 2015-04-29 |
[AnNahar] Three Bahrainis have each been juggedDon't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! for 15 years and stripped of their citizenship for "terrorist acts", a senior judicial official in the Gulf kingdom said on Tuesday. "In a terrorism-related case, the criminal court sentenced three people to 15 years each in prison, and to have their nationality revoked," Ahmed al-Hammadi, the prosecutor in charge of "terrorist" cases, said in a statement. He said the three were prosecuted for "possession of explosives" and making home-made devices that were planted to attack security forces, before being discovered and defused. Opposition sources in the Shiite-majority but Sunni-ruled kingdom said the three were all Shiites involved in protests. Since 2001, Bahrain has been rocked by sporadic Shiite-led demonstrations demanding a constitutional monarchy. Washington ally Bahrain, across the Gulf from Shiite Iran, is the home base of the U.S. Fifth Fleet. |
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