Bahrain extends prison terms for 13 in mass trial following sit-in

Bahrain extends prison terms for 13 in mass trial following sit-in

A court in Bahrain sentenced 13 prisoners to an additional time in jail over a sit-in they held while in detention in 2021 that prison authorities say was violent, rights group reported yesterday. The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) said that the convictions issued the day before were part of a mass trial of 65 defendants. “The Court convicted 12 defendants to three years in prison and one defendant to a year in prison on charg…