Press TV - The Bahraini judiciary says it will try prominent Shia cleric and opposition figureSheikh Ali Salmanlater this month on a chargeof spying for neighboring Qatar. The BahrainiPublic Prosecutor's Office said in a statement on Sunday that Salman, the secretary-general of the countrys now-dissolved al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, would ...

A court in Bahrain has turned down a request to grant freedom to distinguished Shia cleric Sheikh Ali Salman. On Monday, the Supreme Court of Appeal rejected the request to release the 50-year-old clergyman, who is serving a nine-year prison sentence on charges of inciting violence and calling for anti-regime demonstrations. The court set ...

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- A court in the Gulf Arab nation of Bahrain sentenced the country's leading Shiite opposition figure to four years in prison on Tuesday. Sheikh Ali Salman, a key figure in the 2011 uprising against the Sunni monarchy, was convicted of insulting the Interior Ministry, which oversees police, inciting others to break the law ...

Iranhas expressed grave concernover the case of Bahrains detained opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman,stressing that crackdown on political activists will nothelp improvethesituationin the country. The extension of Salman's remand in custodyis a nonstarter when it come tosettling problems inBahrain, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh ...

[caption id="attachment_141802" align="alignright" width="181"] Bahrain's opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman[/caption] Bahrains senior Shia leader Sheikh Ali Salman's trial has beenadjourned to March.Salman will remain in custody till then. On Wednesday, Sheikh Salman went brieflyon trial for a second time on charges of allegedly plotting against ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 28 (MNA) In her weekly press conference, Irans FM spokeswoman has urged the other negotiating side to take heed of Irans initiative proposals to reach a final agreement as soon as possible. Irans FM spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham has covered a wide range of topics in todays weekly press conference, starting with congratulating everyone on ...

[caption id="attachment_135767" align="alignright" width="195"] Bahrain's al-Wefaq opposition group leader Sheikh Ali Salman[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) Sheikh Ali Salman, the secretary general of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, Bahrains main opposition bloc, who has been in detention for a month, announced that he is ready to spend his life in ...