{"id":15587,"date":"2013-01-14T14:51:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T21:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15587"},"modified":"2013-01-14T14:58:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T21:58:49","slug":"bahrain-streetsfilled-with-ceaseless-protests-for-jailed-oppostion-leaders-as-foolish-regime-hides-behind-pretense-of-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15587","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Streets filled with Ceaseless Protests for Jailed Oppostion Leaders as foolish Regime hides behind pretense of “dialogue”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bahrain Shiites protest at jail for 13 activists<\/strong>
\n12 January, 2013 – Agence France Presse – The Daily Star<\/p>\n

MANAMA: Thousands of Shiites demonstrated near Manama on Saturday in a new protest against an appeals court upholding jail terms for 13 activists on charges of plotting to overthrow Bahrain’s monarchy, witnesses said.<\/p>\n

“We will not resign ourselves to it” and “we will not forget the prisoners,” shouted demonstrators during the peaceful protest that was monitored by a heavy security presence. Some carried photos of those convicted.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the Court of Cassation upheld sentences ranging from between five years and life in prison against the 13, who took part in 2011 anti-government protests.<\/p>\n

They were convicted by a military tribunal on charges that included “setting up terror groups to topple the regime,” and were later retried in a civilian court.<\/p>\n

Hours after the ruling, hundreds of people gathered in the Shiite village of Malkiya in support of the prisoners.<\/p>\n

Since February 2011, Bahrain has been shaken by opposition protests that the authorities of the Sunni-dominated kingdom say are being fuelled by Shiite Iran across the Gulf.<\/p>\n

At the time, the main Shiite opposition movement Al-Wefaq called the verdict political and said it reflected the “absolute absence of an independent judiciary.”<\/p>\n

A Saturday statement by the opposition denounced what it called a “political trial,” and claimed that the judicial system was being “used as a tool of vengeance against (regime) opponents.”
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