This Article is From Mar 30, 2014

Bahrain sentences 13 to life in prison for protest

Manama, Bahrain: A defence lawyer says a court in Bahrain has sentenced 13 people to life in prison for attempting to kill a policeman, attacking a police car and taking part in an illegal protest.

Lawyer Mohammad Al-Tajir says another person was sentenced to 10 years in jail in the same case today.

The case relates to an incident that took place outside the Arab country's capital city of Manama in March 2012, during the start of a wave of anti-government protests by its Shiite majority.

The kingdom's Shiites began protesting en masse that year for greater rights from the tiny island nation's Sunni monarchy.

Al-Tajir told The Associated Press that many of the 14 Bahrainis convicted are 18-year-olds and that the defence plans to appeal.

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