Alwaght - On Monday, Bahrains Supreme Court upheld the life sentence for Sheikh Ali Salman, the head of the opposition movement al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, and two former members of parliament Sheikh Hassan Sultan and Ali al-Aswad, three of whom are charged baselessly with spying for Qatar.
In 2015, the 53-year-old Salman, was sentenced ...
MNA The spokesman of Iranian foreign ministry condemned the recent upholding of life sentences against opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman and two other Bahraini dissidents by an appeal court.
Bahram Ghasemi said in a statement on Tuesday that the unjust sentences based on false accusations against them shows that the Bahraini government, with ...
Press TV - Amnesty International has blasted Bahrain for upholding a life sentence against prominent Shia cleric and opposition figure Sheikh Ali Salman, describing the verdict as another blow to the freedom of expression in the country.
The Court of Cassation in Bahrain on Monday confirmed life imprisonment sentences against the 53-year-old Sheikh ...
FNA - The Iranian foreign ministry deplored the life sentence verdicts handed down by Bahrain's highest court to three opposition leaders, including top cleric Sheikh Ali Salman, calling on Manama to recognize the civil rights of the country's people.
"This measure is condemned; we do not interfere in Bahrain's internal issues but have always recommended ...
France 24 - Bahrain's supreme court, whose verdicts are final, on Monday upheld a life term for Shiite opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman for spying for Gulf rival Qatar, a judicial source said.
Salman, who headed the Shiite Al-Wefaq group, was convicted in November of "communicating with Qatari officials... to overthrow constitutional order", ...
Alwaght - On Saturday, the Bahraini Court of Appeal held its fourth session to see into the case of Sheikh Ali bin Salman, the head of the countrys Al-Wefaq movement, and two of former lawmakers, Hassan Sultan, and Ali al-Aswad, on charges of spying for Qatar. The court overturned the previous acquittalsand sentenced them to life in jail.
Since ...
MNA The Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi issued a statement Sun. condemning the life sentence verdict issued by a Bahraini appeal court against prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Ali Salman.
This verdict will leave no room for any doubt in the public opinion and the international community that the Bahraini government does ...
Tasnim Bahrains leading opposition figure Sheikh Ali Salman, who has been in prison since 2014, slammed the Manama regimes recent attacks on dissidents and moves against Sheikh Isa Qassim, the spiritual leader of Shiites in the Arab kingdom, as shameful.
In a recent telephone call to his family, Sheikh Salman said the recent jail sentence issued ...
Press TV - Bahrains senior opposition cleric Sheikh Ali Salman says the prosecution of top Shia clericSheikh Isa Qassim amounts to persecution and targeting of the entire Shia community in the country.
Salman, the secretary general of the countrys now-dissolved al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, made the remarks during a telephone call from ...
Press TV - Amnesty International has launched a public campaign, which calls on the Bahraini regime to immediately and unconditionally release prominent Shia opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman.
The campaigns statement, posted on Amnestys website on Thursday, said the Manama regime must be pressured to rescind the conviction of Sheikh Salman,...
Press TV - Bahrains senior opposition Shiacleric Sheikh Ali Salman has had his prison sentence commuted by five years.
After deliberations, the Court of Cassation canceled the nine-year ruling issued [earlier] by the Court of Appellation and reinstated the four-year verdict initially handed to him by the Division 4 Criminal Court in 2015, said ...
IRNA Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi on Monday expressed deep concern about long prison sentence against Bahraini Secretary-General of the al-Wefaq political society Ali Salman Ahmed Salman.
Expressing deep concern about the verdict, he said reliance on power of the people would guarantee security of the countries and governments.
Unjust ...
Press TV- Hundreds of Bahrainis have staged several anti-regime protest rallies across the Persian Gulf kingdom on the eve of the trial of the distinguished Shia opposition cleric, Sheikh Ali Salman.
Th protesters took to the streets in the villages of Diraz, al-Markh and Saar as well as Bilad al-Qadeem town on Sunday evening, calling for the ...
Press TV- Distinguished Shia opposition cleric Sheikh Ali Salman, who has been sentenced to nine years in jail for alleged subversion, has attended the first hearing in his retrial.
According to Bahrainsal-Wasatnewspaper, the head of the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, which was Bahrains largest parliamentary bloc before it was dissolved ...
A court in Bahrain has ruled that the assets belonging to the al-Wefaq opposition group, which was the largest parliamentary group in the country before being banned and dissolved, be auctioned off.
A judicial source said on Saturday that the blocs assets were to go under the hammer on October 26 after a verdict by an administrative court sanctioned ...
The Bahraini court that has the ultimate say in appeal requests in the country has ordered a retrial of distinguished Shia opposition cleric Sheikh Ali Salman, who has been sentenced to nine years in jail in a series of previous trials.
The Court of Cassation, also known as the Supreme Court of Appeal, issued the ruling on Monday, according ...
The secretary general of Bahrains al-WefaqNational Islamic Society has called on the UN high commissioner for human rights to put an end to Manamas persecution of Shia Muslims.
The imprisoned Shia cleric Sheikh Ali Salman wrote a letter to Zeid Raad al-Hussein on Tuesday stressing that Bahrain is witnessing a dangerous swelling in persecution ...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the Bahraini regime of systematically targeting religious leaders of the countrys Shia community and violating the clerics rightto freedom of expression and gathering.
In a statement released on Tuesday, theNew York-based rights organization said credible local sources estimate that Bahraini authorities have ...
A court in Bahrainhas dissolved the countrys main Shia opposition group, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, almost a month after the regime suspendedits activities.
The so-called administrative court in the capital, Manama, on Sunday ordered the dissolution of al-Wefaq and the seizure of its funds.
The Bahraini justice ministry had suspended ...
Shia Muslim clerics in Bahrain have stopped holding congregational prayers in the country in protest at the heavy-handed crackdown and persecution by the ruling Al Khalifah regime.
The clerics, in a statement titled Those Barred from Praying released on Thursday, condemned the Bahraini regimes efforts to restrict Shia Muslims freedom of religion ...
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