... Marzooq, a former MP, was arrested in September after being summoned for questioning and later charged by the general prosecutor with “promoting acts that amount to terrorist crimes”. On September 29, a court sentenced 50 opposition members, including a top Iraqi cleric, to up to 15 years in jail for forming the February 14 Coalition clandestine group, which is blamed for most of the opposition protests that lead to confrontations between security forces and opposition members of Bahrain’s Shiite majority. All of the opposition members sentenced were Shiite, while the ruling al-Khalifa family is from the island’s Sunni minority ...
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