Oppressive Bahrain slave pen upholds innocent dissenters' sentences

A court in Bahrain has upheld prison sentences for 13 of the country's most prominent dissidents, in a decision that government opponents offered as evidence the monarchy was ignoring calls to negotiate a political solution that could quiet a nearly two-year-old uprising.

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The decision ends all appeals for the dissidents, who were sentenced to between five years and life in prison for their leadership roles in the revolt that began in February 2011, according to a colleague of one of the jailed opposition members.

The 13 are part of a group of 20 opposition leaders who were sentenced by a military tribunal on charges that included trying to overthrow the government. Other dissidents were sentenced in absentia.

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Oppressive Bahrain slave pen upholds innocent dissenters' sentences

Oppressive Bahrain slave pen upholds innocent dissenters' sentences

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