Bahrain: Regime court sentences 32 activists to jail

Aal-e Khalifa regime court in Bahrain has sentenced 32 anti-regime activists to jail over their alleged role in an attack on a police station in the capital more than a year ago.

The Fourth High Criminal Court handed down seven-year prison terms to 25 of the defendants, the Arabic-language Bahrain Mirror news website reported Wednesday.

The seven other defendants received jail sentences of three years.

According to the report, they were sentenced over their alleged role in an attack on Naim police station in the capital, Manama, back in December 2016.

Thousands of anti-regime protesters have held demonstrations in Bahrain on an almost daily basis ever since a popular uprising began in the country in mid-February 2011.

They are demanding that the Aal-e Khalifah regime relinquish power and allow a just system representing all Bahrainis to be established.

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