A travesty of justice, a sign of relentless and unlawful efforts to silence any form of dissent. This how the Amnest International slammed a Bahraini courts order to the life sentence for prominent Bahraini activist and cleric sheikh Ali Salman and his two aides.
Bahrain observers warn that Sheikh Salmans life imprisonment is not a unique case and is a part of the active and systematic violations of human rights in Bahrain just weeks prior to the planned general election on 24 November 2018. He is the head of the powerful opposition movement Al-Wefaq which was also dissolved by the regime earlier.