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US citizen jailed for 10 years for attempted murder in Bahrain A Bahraini court sentenced a US citizen of Arab origin to 10 years in prison Tuesday for attempting to murder policemen last year. Taqi al-Meydan, 25, was also convicted of burning a police vehicle and taking part in a street protest, AFP quoted his lawyer Mohammed al-Jishi as saying. Two other defendants were also jailed for 10 years on similar charges. Meydan, born in the US in 1988 to a Saudi Arabian father and a Bahraini mother, was arrested in October 2012 during a demonstration in a Shiite village near Manama. Al-Meydan pled not guilty to the charges and will appeal the verdict. gulfnews/news/gulf/bahrain/bahrain-jails-us-citizen-for-attempted-murder-1.1235105
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:06:48 +0000

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