{"id":13498,"date":"2018-04-23T03:16:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T03:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=13498"},"modified":"2018-04-23T03:16:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T03:16:58","slug":"bahrain-crackdown-court-sentences-24-shiites-to-jail-revoking-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/bahrain-crackdown-court-sentences-24-shiites-to-jail-revoking-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Crackdown: Court Sentences 24 Shiites to Jail, Revoking Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Continuing its crackdown against Shia citizens, a Bahrain court sentenced 24 of them to prison and stripped them of their nationality after claiming they are guilty of forming a &#8220;terrorist group&#8221;, a Bahraini judicial source said Thursday.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bahrain Crackdown: Court Sentences 24 Shiites to Jail, Revoking Citizenship\" src=\"http:\/\/www.english.alahednews.com.lb\/uploaded2\/Essays\/2018\/April\/April 20\/bahrain.jpg\" alt=\"Bahrain\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Other claimed allegations included travelling to Iraq and Iran for &#8220;weapons and explosives training&#8221; and attempted murder of police officers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The High Criminal Court on Wednesday sentenced 10 of the defendants to life in prison, 10 to a decade behind bars and the other four to jail terms ranging from three to five years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Shiite-majority kingdom has so far stripped hundreds of its citizens of their nationality and jailed dozens of high-profile activists and religious clerics since protests demanding an elected government erupted in early 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Authorities on Wednesday also referred to trial seven Bahrainis accused of attacking an oil pipeline to Saudi Arabia in November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Under Bahrain&#8217;s citizenship law, amended after political protests broke out in 2011, the authorities can revoke the nationality of individuals who engage in acts deemed &#8220;disloyal&#8221; to the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Human Rights Watch in February accused the kingdom of &#8220;stripping away the citizenships of people whom they find undesirable&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing its crackdown against Shia citizens, a Bahrain court sentenced 24 of them to prison and stripped them of their nationality after claiming they are guilty of forming a &#8220;terrorist group&#8221;, a Bahraini judicial source said Thursday. Other claimed allegations included travelling to Iraq and Iran for &#8220;weapons and explosives training&#8221; and attempted murder of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13500,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13498\/revisions\/13500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}