Bahrain court jails two dissidents, strips them of citizenship

A court in Bahrain has sentenced two political dissidents to five years in prison and revoked their citizenship as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on pro-democracy campaigners in the Persian Gulf kingdom. On Saturday, Bahrain’s Supreme Court of Appeal found the defendants guilty of “training in the use of weapons and ...

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