Brussels, 01/06/2016 (Agence Europe) - During the evening of Tuesday 31 May, the European Union spoke out against the nine year prison sentence passed in Bahrain the previous day on Ali Salman, the secretary general of the al-Wefaq political society.
His initial prison sentence in June 2015 was for four years (see EUROPE 11338), but contrary to the first instance ruling, a Bahraini court of appeal retained the charge of “seeking to overthrow by force the monarchy and change the political...