Bahrain Jails Teachers, Ends Election Play

Mahdi Abu Deib and Jalila Al-Salman were convicted by the court for the so-called "national safety" as they have been calling to forcefully overthrow the regime in union statement.

"They were also accused of promoting hatred to the regime and spreading false news," AFP reported.

"The two people were said to having used the union to instigate criminal acts like calling for sit-ins by teachers, obstructing teaching, holding protests near schools... and calling upon parents not to send their children to school," it further mentioned.
 
Meanwhile, Election play in Bahrain ended to show that more than 80 percent of the electorate refused to vote in the recent parliamentary by-elections in the country.
 

Reuters reported Sunday that less than one in every five voters cast their ballots in the recent by-elections.
 

Eighteen parliamentary seats were vacated by the largest opposition party al-Wefaq after security forces killed protesters at the start of pro-democracy demonstrations in February.
 

In 14 districts, only 25 130 voters of a total 144 513 came out to vote, representing a 17.4% turnout, according to figures published on the government's elections website www.vote.bh.

The low turnout was a victory for al-Wefaq which called on voters to boycott the by-elections.
 

Al-Wefaq leader Sheikh Ali Salman said the results showed that Bahrainis rejected the king's reforms, emphasizing that"there is no such thing as Bahraini democracy. There has to be peaceful rotation of power."
 

"If there is no transition, Bahrain will remain in a crisis of security and human rights, this is a historic moment," he added


Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org