23 Bahrainis Sentenced to 10 Years in Jail Each

Local Editor

A Bahraini court sentenced 23 people to 10 years in prison each over their alleged involvement in an attack on al-Khalifa regime forces in the kingdom.

According to the Bahraini media, the country's High Criminal Court ruled on Wednesday that the defendants detonated an explosive device intended to target regime forces. Additionally, they were charged with unlawful assembly in the northwestern village of Bani Jamra.

The sentence came as the Bahraini judiciary went under criticism by many human rights groups for handing down long jail terms to anti-regime protesters and activists in the country.

Relatively, Amnesty International and several other rights groups repeatedly censured the Bahraini regime over the "rampant" human rights abuses against opposition activists and anti-government protesters.

On Tuesday, Bahraini protesters staged a fresh anti-regime rally in the northern village of Abu Saiba calling on the regime to heed calls by the United Nations and human rights organizations to resolve the political crisis in the country and release all political prisoners.

In the context, anti-regime protesters have been holding demonstrations on the streets of Bahrain since mid-February 2011, calling for the al-Khalifah family to relinquish power. The regime's ongoing heavy-handed crackdown on peaceful demonstrations left scores of people dead, hundreds injured, and many more incarcerated.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team